Kloyo Sikplemi Festival

The Kloyo Sikplemi Festival is celebrated by the People of Somanya in November.

The significance of this festival is to pay homage to ancestral home on the, Krobo mountains.

Some activities marking this festival includes a communal labour, pilgrimage to the Krobo mountains and a durbar of chiefs.

Kloyo Sikplemi refers to the eviction of the Krobos from the Krobo mountains in 1892 by the then British colonial government.

The event is marked every year with an expedition to the top of the mountain to pay homage to their ancestral home The Krobo, made up of Yilo Krobo and Manya Krobo, form one large ethnic group among the Dangme people.

The Yilo Krobos stay at Somanya and its suburbs and the Manya Krobo reside around Odumase.



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