Adae Kese Festival: Difference between revisions

'''Adae Kese Festival''' ("big resting place") is an important albeit rare celebration among the [[Ashanti people|Ashantis]] in Ghana.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ghana.travel/events-festivals/adae-kese-festival/|title=Adae Kese Festival|last=WhiteOrange|website=Ghana Tourism Authourity|language=en|access-date=2019-12-26}}</ref> It glorifies the achievements of the [[Asante dialect|Asante]] kingdom.<ref name=Kese>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ghana.travel/ghana/festivals/ada_kese_festival/ |title=Adae Kese Festival |accessdate=24 November 2012 |publisher=Official web site of Ghana.Travel Corporation |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111227182810/http://www.ghana.travel/ghana/festivals/ada_kese_festival/ |archivedate=27 December 2011 }}</ref><ref name=African>{{Cite web|url=http://www.african.net/adaekese.htm|title= African Festivals: Adae Kese|accessdate=24 November 2012|publisher=African. Net}}</ref> It is also the occasion when the purification ceremony of [[Odwira festival|Odwira]] is performed at the burial shrines of ancestral spirits. Generally, this coincides with the harvest season of ''yam'' and hence the ritual was also called the "Yam custom" by [[Europeans]].{{Sfn| Roy 2005|p=42}} It is celebrated every two weeks by the people in accordance with the calender of the Akans based on the cycle of forty-two days and nine months in their calendar.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ghana.travel/events-festivals/adae-kese-festival/|title=Adae Kese Festival|last=WhiteOrange|website=Ghana Tourism Authourity|language=en|access-date=2019-12-26}}</ref> The festival is mostly held to climax celebrations of specific achievements and milestones of the people of the [[Ashanti people|Ashanti]] kingdom.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ghana.travel/events-festivals/adae-kese-festival/|title=Adae Kese Festival|last=WhiteOrange|website=Ghana Tourism Authourity|language=en|access-date=2019-12-26}}</ref>