Amedzofe, Volta Region, Ghana

There is joy, dance, and celebration in the center!

This is Borborbor! — A traditional dance of the Ewedome people, an Eʋe (Ewe) culture born in the Center of the Volta Region. 

Carried on a drum whose roots run deeper than the dance itself.

They are gathered here in Amedzofe — on the highest mountain village in the Volta Region. Home of the Kèdānị̄mà (Kedanima) people — the birthplace of humanity.

The Eʋe settled alongside them long ago. Different languages. Different histories.

But on this mountain, on this day — the same drum every Easter.

The drum is not background. It is a summons. It calls the ancestors into the present.

And somewhere in the sound of it —

The dance remembered us.

We were always held in the memory of our ancestors. The memory is the call to return.

#ComeHomeToYourself

52 Days. 52 Truths.