Nkoranza Bredi is a typical farming community in the Bono East region, noted for both food and cash crops. The small community with about 1,000 inhabitants have made a name on the map due to their typical and rich Krufie festival, which is not observed by the people of Ghana but across the globe. Thousands of people visit Bredi yearly for their life protection, travel mercies and financial breakthroughs.
The chanting and dancing of the fetish priest have mixed feelings, sometimes more entertaining, while others look fearful and threatening. It is not strange that some journalists from Europe and other parts of the world come to cover the Bredi festival for their documentaries.
United States of America, France, La Cote Divoire, Togo, Benin, and other African countries come to Bredi to pay homage to the Shrine. Surprisingly, the late Komfo Agyei a fetish priest of Bredi established a Presbyterian church and school before he passed.
Nick Danso Adjei speaking off camera says it is unfortunate Africans are denying their rich culture. He added, that they celebrate the Bredi festival to share ideas on development and other matters. Nick Danso Adjei concludes he is a Christian but cannot deny Ghanaian culture for any reason.
The Bredi festival celebration marked yearly in January begins on Wednesday to Sunday, giant bulls are slaughtered to feed thousands of people throughout the ceremony.
The Akwamuhene Techiman, also the acting president of the Techiman Traditional Area, Nana Owusu Gyare speaking to Nkyeremu News says festival celebrations help to remember historical events and invoke our ancestors. He says it is not strange to see Christians and Muslims join the traditionalists to mark the festival celebrations with touched hearts.
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