Fasuya Music Dance Ensemble

School of African Cultire and Performing Arts  

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TOURISM PLACES

 

Participants in Fasuya are exposed or offer travel and tours  to important places like mole national park one of the west African main game parks in which you can see elephants, lions, leopards, buffaloes, antelopes. The old larabanga mosques and the crocodile pond at paga are all places of interest for visitors/participants. Also Traditional architecture especially the chief palaces and temples of Northern Ghana and Ashanti, Whistling rocks at Tongo near Bolgatanga, traditionally believed to be made by unseen spirits of the resident shrine Tongo Naaba.

 

Paga crocodile pond

 

Participants at Fasuya become animate with excitement at festive occasions such as Damba and Fire festival. This is proverbial hospitality of Ghana at its best. Visitors are often welcomed into home to share drinks and meals, given traditional clothes to join in street celebration. Teachers take participants to the sound of drums of the tradition. Each festival celebration commemorates an event of war, victory, harvest, installation of chiefs or funeral performances. Films photographs are allowed.

 

 

THE SLAVE MARKET AT SAAKPULI

 

Saakpuli is 7km off the Tamale- Bolgatanga trunk road at Disiga. During the raining season it can only be accessed through Dikpungni off the pigu-Karaga feeder road. Saakpuli was a commercial town that linked the north to the south where   trade in slaves and kola nuts flourished. It is aid that during the resign of Saakpuli-lana. This settlement was also said to have over a thousand horses which were used for trade and Calvary. The traders from the north particulars moshes exchange tobaccos and slaves for kola-nuts and other merchandise goods from the south. Visit the Saakpuli and learn about the center