Dipo: The Krobo Rite of Womanhood | Ghana
Among the Krobo people of Ghana, Dipo stands as one of West Africa’s most enduring rites of passage, a spiritual, moral, and social initiation that marks the transformation of a girl into a woman. Celebrated each year before the planting season, the Dipo ceremony is both a private education in womanhood and a public affirmation of identity. It renews the
