Hamile | About Ghana

This is a border crossing to Burkina Faso and a gateway into and out of the Upper West Region.

As you travel and take a tour of the Slave Route in the Upper West Region, you will no doubt come across craft villages.

Mamgu, Babile and Nadom are noted for hand woven textiles and smocks. Lawra and Jirapa are noted for xylophones and for basketry.

Pottery is an intensive activity in areas like Kaleo, Charia, Loho Lawra. The ancient crafts of iron extraction and smelting are still carried on in Bulinga, Daffiama and Lawra.

You will also come across highly developed and unique brands of traditional music and dance, religion, rituals and initiation ceremonies and ancestral festivals. These are open to anybody. There is also the well-known tradition of ethnic medicine, herbalists and healers. The efficacy of cures for fractures and mending of bones, jaundice and snakebites makes a strong argument for "alternative medicine". There are also well-developed and distinctive local cuisines.

2015 - Despite Group

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