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Amu Festival Amedzofe in Amedzofe
The Amu Festival is the annual rice-harvest celebration of the Avatime Traditional Area in Ghana's Volta Region, closing each year with a durbar at Amedzofe, the country's highest village. Named for amu, the brown mountain rice grown on the Avatime hills instead of the yam and maize common elsewhere in Ghana, it draws drumming, dancing and family reunions to a cluster of seven highland communities.
Avatime farmers grow brown mountain rice on hillsides where most of Ghana grows yam and maize, and the Amu Festival turns that unusual harvest into the largest annual gathering of the Avatime Traditional Area.