The whole mining town of Obuasi went agog as hundreds of individuals from all strolls of life troop to the Zongo Play Grounds to connect within the celebration of this year’s Damba celebration.
The event was sorted out by the Dagomba youth bunch based at Obuasi.
There was an show of wealthy culture from the different Northern Regional tribes at the celebration which commemorates the birth of Prophet Mohammed.
It was moreover to mean solidarity, participation and coexistence among the individuals.
The two-day celebration was beneath the subject, ‘Harnessing Our Cultural Differences for Work and Riches Creation.’
It had in participation Nana Akua Dwom II, Ruler mother of Edubiase, Civil Chief Official for Obuasi, Hon Elijah Adansi-Bonah, Chiefs from different tribes as well as devout pioneers.
The Chairman of the Dagomba Youth Affiliation, Shaban Ibn Bawa, in his discourse, said the celebration of the Damba celebration dates back to the 18th Century amid the rule of Naa Zanjina.
He emphasized that the celebration was generally celebrated by the Dagombas but has presently spread to other stratified Northern tribes like Mamprusi, Gonja and Wala.
He exhorted that Dagombas and other Northern tribes ought to utilize occasions just like the Damba celebration to join together and co-exist gently since the celebration symbolises solidarity of the Mole-Dagban and all the children and girls of Naa Gbewaa.
Touching on the subject for the celebration, Mr. Bawa said the youth ought to endeavor to secure entrepreneurial aptitudes which is able to guarantee them a secured future other than receiving the “get wealthy quickly syndrome”.
The Ruler Mother of the Edubiase Conventional Committee, Nana Akua Dwom II, who graced the event with the Dompoase Kontihene, Nana Bosompim Kitikyi Appenteng, lauded the Damba celebration and lauded the coordinators for amassing most of the tribes in Ghana to display their culture.
She emphasized that the as it were nostrum to Ghana’s improvement is for the individuals to suit or endure other tribes.