Asogli Yam Festival launched

The 2014 Asogli Yam Festival was launched on Sunday with a call on the people to participate fully in the celebration of the event.

The Festival provides an opportunity for experiencing traditional music, dance and storytelling skills.

The three weeks’ event is on the theme, “Let’s make our nation great and strong” and expected to attract local and foreign tourists.

Highlights of 2014 celebration would be a health walk on the Adaklu Mountain, pilgrimage to the ancestral home of Asogli at Notsie in the Republic of Togo, hailing of the new yam, an old school re-union, Miss Asogli Pageant show, yam weighing competition, a state dinner dance, the sitting in state of the Agbogbomefia and a grand durbar.

Togbe Anikpi III, Divisional Chief of Ho-Heve who launched the Festival, described it as an “important homecoming” for the Asoglis and called for the support of all towards a successful celebration.

He appealed to the indigenes to tidy their environment to avoid sanitation related diseases during the celebration.

The launch was characterised by borborbor performances from various youth groups.

The climax of the Festival would be a grand durbar on Saturday September 20.

The celebration of the Yam Festival by the Asoglis and for that matter Ewes was brought down from Notsie where it is still celebrated.

It is celebrated to foster unity through forgiveness and reconciliation, as an annual stocktaking event for all occupational endeavours, especially farming, to mobilize both human and material resources of Asogli State for job and wealth creation and to serve as an annual re-affirmation of allegiance by all chiefs and their subjects in the Asogli State to the Agbogbome stool.