Qualla: Kwahu Easter https://qualla.com/kwahu-easter en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Kwahu Easter https://qualla.com/kwahu-easter Kwahu Easter: Introduction https://qualla.com/kwahu-easter/ It started with a chance encounter on a mountain road. In March 2003, Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, Ghana's newly appointed Minister of Tourism and Modernization, was driving along the Kwahu Ridge in the Eastern Region when he crossed paths with Walter Neser, a paragliding organizer scouting launch sites. The escarpment rising above the Kwahu South District, with its exposed sandstone beds and powerful thermal updrafts, was exactly the kind of terrain paragliders dream about. By 2005, Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama had officially launched the first Ghana Paragliding Festival at Kwahu. What had been a quiet, fading Easter homecoming for the Kwahu people became, almost overnight, one of the largest annual festivals in West Africa.

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/p/m/kwahu-easter-wp/ecpm-kwahu-easter-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kwahu Easter: Homecoming Before the Headlines https://qualla.com/kwahu-easter/ Long before paragliders filled the sky, Easter in Kwahu was a family affair. The Kwahu people, an Akan subgroup from the Eastern Region, have a tradition of returning to their ancestral towns during the Easter holiday. For the diaspora scattered across Accra, Kumasi, and beyond, ...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/p/m/kwahu-easter-wp/ecpm-kwahu-easter-homecoming-before-the-headlines.mp3 0:06 2 full Kwahu Easter: Launching from the Escarpment https://qualla.com/kwahu-easter/ The Odweanoma Mountain at Kwahu Atibie provides the primary launch site, and experienced pilots consider it one of the best paragliding locations in West Africa. The prominent escarpment reveals horizontal beds of sandstone, and the thermals that rise along the ridge face give pi...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/p/m/kwahu-easter-wp/ecpm-kwahu-easter-launching-from-the-escarpment.mp3 0:06 3 full Kwahu Easter: Street Jams and Cave Trails https://qualla.com/kwahu-easter/ Paragliding gets the international press, but the ground-level festivities are what keep Ghanaians coming back. Obomeng's nightlife erupts during the Easter weekend, with outdoor music stages, DJs, and dancing that runs until dawn. Street jams, spontaneous outdoor parties driven ...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/p/m/kwahu-easter-wp/ecpm-kwahu-easter-street-jams-and-cave-trails.mp3 0:06 4 full Kwahu Easter: A Festival That Reversed a Decline https://qualla.com/kwahu-easter/ Academic studies have examined the Kwahu Easter as a case study in how tourism can revive cultural traditions rather than displace them. The paragliding festival gave the Easter homecoming a new reason to exist beyond obligation and nostalgia: it became an event worth attending o...

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