Willa Festival is an annual festival celebrated by the chiefs and people of Takpo in the Nadowli district in the Upper West Region of Ghana. [1] [2] It is usually celebrated in the month of April. [3] Others also claim it is celebrated in March. [4]
During the festival, visitors are welcomed to share food and drinks. The people put on traditional clothes and there is durbar of chiefs. There is also dancing and drumming. [5]
This festival is celebrated to give thanks to their ancestral gods, ask for guidance and protection and pacification of gods of the Wilaa shrine. [6] [7]