This festival is celebrated twice in a year by the people of Akyem in the Abuakwa Traditional area.

These are known as OhumKan and Ohum- Kyire and celebrated in June/July and September/ October respectively.

This festival marks the anniversary of the Akyem Nation: worshipping of the ancestral stools and the spirits of those who formerly occupied them.

The celebration is also to mark the first harvest (yam) of the year and to ask for blessings for the coming year. M

The duration of the festival is 2 days (Tuesday-Wednesday).

Two weeks before the festival, a ban is placed on drumming, dancing and noise making.

Monday preceding the Tuesday, everybody goes to the farm to bring home the first harvest of the year and to have plenty of food in the house for the duration of the celebrations.