The Ankos Festival also known as Takoradi street carnival or Masquerade Festival is an annual event celebrated by the people of Takoradi, Ghana. Its main attraction is dozens of groups of people or teams dressing in wild outfits who display their skills and arts via dance. The festival is usually celebrated from 24-27 December of every year, and is popular with tourists.
These are the list of masquerades groups in Takoradi.[2]
Ankos Masqueraders
SupremeMasqueraders
Cosmos Masqueraders
Nyanta Boys Masqueraders
Iron Fighters Masqueraders
Unity Masqueraders
Missisipi Masqueraders
Spain Masqueraders
Sunnato Masqueraders
Valencia Masqueraders
Canadians Masqueraders
Chinese Masqueraders
Tumus Masqueraders
Ohyewakomem Masqueraders
Oil city Masqueraders
Millionaires Masqueraders
Unicon Masqueraders
Addyzee Masqueraders
USA Masqueraders
Odoy3few Masqueraders
The various masquerades groups come together in the township of Takoradi to display their skills, culture and other arts to the general public through dancing and singing of various songs using brass band. The festival consist of different gender groups joining from various walks of life. It involves the young and the old who are much passionate about the culture and art during this festive moment. Their fancy outfit for the festival varies from one group to another. During the festival the brass band team play all kind of sounds, songs, melodies and tunes to spice up the festivity and also increase the excitement of various participant and watchers of the event who stand across the road, rooftops and balcony.
The Year of Return was to mark the return of black people from the diaspora to meet and learn about Ghanaian culture and partake in local traditions and so forth. The Year of Return had a massive impact on the Masquerade festival because it had a lot of tourists, the majority being black people from the diaspora trooping into Takoradi to celebrate the festival.
Great music artists and celebrities from Ghana participate in this festival. These includes, Kofi Kinaata, Quamina Mp, pappy Kojo, black sherif, Kwesi Arthur, Bridget Otoo, captain Smart, Kwame Sefa kayi,
Supreme Masqueraders club. Wonshare.
27 дек 2022
