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Nana Asuo Gyebi and interpreter

Nana Asuo Gyebi Festival is an annual Ghanaian Akan spiritual and cultural practiced in the United States. According the website modernghana.com the festival is a celebration of life, natural living and thanksgiving to Almighty God, the deities and the ancestors. Held annually at an outdoor space and part of the International African Arts Festival in Brooklyn, New York, OBAATANPA House of Hope Intl Inc. has been organizing the festival for over 25 years.

 

Here, following drumming, singing, and dancing, the spirit of Nana Asuo Gyebi has possessed his initiate and is delivering important messages to those in attendance through an interpreter.

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Uploaded on July 5, 2017
Taken on July 2, 2017