Bolgatanga
Bolgatanga, basketry and earth-built homes
Bolgatanga is renowned for weaving and market craft.
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Upper East.
Real places in this region, photographed by the people who were there. Every photo is credited. Tap one to see it large. Got a better one? Share it.
Photo credits & licences
- Paga crocodile pond, Upper East Region. Knowledge and philosophy · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Basket weavers, Bolgatanga, Upper East Region. Vrinda Khushu · CC BY-SA 4.0
- A young craftsman at the Bolgatanga craft market. Tahiru Rajab · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Old settlements in the Tongo hills. Shahadusadik · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Meeting the crocodiles at Paga. Ratty666 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- At the Sirigu women's pottery and art centre. Issahiddris · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Inside Navrongo Cathedral. Sucram Yef · CC BY 2.0
- A painted building at Sumbrungu, Bolgatanga. Founderstories · CC BY-SA 4.0
- A basket seller and donkey cart, Bolgatanga. Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Bolga baskets for sale by the road. Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Sunset in Bolgatanga. Mark Kwasi Ahumah Smith · CC BY-SA 4.0
- A painted restaurant by the Paga crocodile pond. Dieu-Donné Gameli · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Boulders in the Tongo Hills. Shahadusadik · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Painted walls at the Sirigu Women's Pottery Association. Sucram Yef · CC BY 2.0
- The Tongo Hills. Uridl01 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Navrongo's earth-built cathedral. Kwameghana · CC BY-SA 4.0
Worth the trip.
Places in this region people keep coming back to. Not a ranking — a starting point.
Knowledge and philosophy · CC BY-SA 4.0
Vrinda Khushu · CC BY-SA 4.0Bolgatanga Market
The home of the Bolga basket.
Sucram Yef · CC BY 2.0Sirigu
Painted compound walls, and a women’s pottery and art collective.
Uridl01 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Kwameghana · CC BY-SA 4.0Navrongo Cathedral
An earth-built cathedral with painted interior walls.
Festivals in
Upper East.
Festivals and cultural events kept here, in calendar order. Many dates move from year to year, so each festival’s page has what we know about when.
- Dec–Jan
Fao
Navrongo’s thanksgiving at the end of the farming season, with a durbar, drumming and war dances.
Around the turn of the year, usually December or JanuaryNavrongo
- Dec
Fiok
The Builsa remember their victory over the slave raider Babatu, with warriors in horned headdresses.
December (21 December in 2024)Sandema
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