Kalibi Festival is an annual festival celebrated by the chiefs and people of Sankana, a town in the Nadowli-Kaleo district in the Upper West Region of Ghana. [1] [2] It is usually celebrated in the month of April. [3] [4] [5]
During the festival, visitors are welcomed to share food and drinks. The people put on traditional clothes and there is a durbar of chiefs, as well as dancing and drumming. [6]
This festival is celebrated to commemorate the victory of the local people over the slave raiders led by Babatu and Samori in 1896. [7] It also serves as an occasion where the ancestors are asked for good health and prosperity. [8]