Sefwi Wiawso is a town in the Sefwi-Wiawso Municipal District in the Western North Region of Ghana.

Overtime, Wiawso and Sefwi-Dwenase have conurbated with almost all the financial institutions, governmental agency-offices, lorry terminals and the main market all located in Sefwi Dwenase.

Legislative Instrument (L.I) 1386, which was passed on November 23, 1988, formed the Municipality and designated Wiawso as its official capital.

The lands on which Sefwi Wiawso is located in the moment was once a thicket of forest with abundance of game and fertile soil.

[6] The first woman of the land was believed to have established a groundnut farm on top of the hill so they received much sunlight in most times of the day.

She(the first lady) later named the place of her groundnut farm “Eyia wo so” which literally meant there is abundance of sunlight here.

It is believed that Nana Kwasipanin Bumankama came to kill an elephant at where Sefwi Wiawso highlands and raised a high platform for preparing and drying the game.

The king later come to realize that the highlands is very suitable place for settlements and very strategic in view of the rampant battles during those times.

The most predominant amongst these cash crop productions is cocoa which constitute a greater percentage of the farmers in Wiawso and surrounding communities.

The hole is alleged to have healing powers (Western region: Human development report 2013 by UNDP).

The event aims to bring people together in order for planning for growth and to forge ties of brotherhood and solidarity.