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Feok festival
The FEOK festival is an important festival celebrated annually by the people of Sandema and its environs to commemorate the victory of the ‘Babatu’ in the 18th century, and to also celebrate a good harvest.

The FEOK FESTIVAL is planned to take place for a period of three days. All Bulsa citizens are expected to present during the festival period and to partake in daily activities that take place in Sandema, the North Bulsa capital. During the period, various exciting games like Archery (bow/arrow shooting), wrestling, and singing, drumming and dancing; particularly war dances, and sometimes drama. On the final day of the, a grand durbar is chaired by the paramount chief is held in Sandema with all chiefs of Bulsa in attendance. Tourist, political and local government leaders are also mostly present at the grand durbar, the 2018 FEOK FESTIVAL saw the president of the republic of Ghana Nana Akuffo Addo in attendance and making a pledge of 2million Euros in investment for the development of the Bulsa land. Previously, other FEOK FESTIVAL celebration saw the like of former president of Ghana J.J Rawlings also attending.

The performance of the war dance locally called leelik which has become an a major part of the feok festival and signifies a call to war, is more importantly a ritual dance in th e traditional context performed to honour a very high profile landlord during his final funeral rites. For these three reasons the war dance was adopted for the feok


 * To entertain attendees of the festival
 * To sell the rich culuture of the Bulsa people
 * To revive the historic brave past of the Bulsa people

In modern days feok, activities like miss feok, soccer competitions, fun fairs, musical concerts has been added to the celebration to make it more exciting to the youth and make the festival engaging for the youth of the Bulsa peopl