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| Festivals and Events |
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Klovo Sikplemi Festival
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Celebrated in Somanya during the period of November and its significance is paying of homage to ancestral home on the Krobo Mountains. Communal labour, pilgrimage to the Krobo Mountains, Durbar.
It origin 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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