Aboakyer festival

[1] The name Aboakyer translates as "hunting for game or animal" in the Fante language as spoken by the people of the Central Region.

The people migrated from the north-eastern African town of Timbuktu in the ancient Western Sudan Empire to their present land in the central coast of Ghana.

[2] A request was made to the god to change the sacrifice type, as they believed that sacrificing royalty could eventually wipe out the royal family.

[2] The god in return asked for type of wild cat to be caught alive and presented to it at its shrine.

On the first day of the festival, the two Asafo companies (warrior groups) in Winneba take part in a hunting expedition.