Slave Route Experience (Northern Pilgrimage)- Leading up to the festival a 3-4day pilgrimage along the slave route mapped under the UNESCO slave route project will be offered as an option. Atonement ceremonies developed over the last few years will be held. Sites of Memory which hold the untold stories of excruciating burden and tremendous resilience of the peoples of Northern Ghana will be the focus of this pilgrimage. This entails a Durbar at Pikworo, an Atonement Ceremony at Salaga, a Conversation with the Elders at Bono Manso and the River Crossing at Assin Praso. This is from the 19th to the 23rd of July, 2023.