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Danyiba Festival in Kpando
Danyiba, more fully Danyibaka, is a triennial festival of the Akpini Ewe people in Kpando, held once every three years rather than annually. It commemorates a river-crossing crisis during the migration from Notsie roughly 450 years ago, when sacrifices to the Danyi River's gods secured safe passage, and a later broken promise that the festival now exists to repair through renewed ritual and prayer.
Danyiba, more precisely Danyibaka in its fuller local name, is a triennial festival of the Akpini people, an Ewe subgroup based in Kpando in the Volta Region, held once every three years rather than annually, which sets its rhythm apart from most of the region's yearly harvest and durbar festivals.