The Buɣim Chuɣu (Fire Festival) Tamale
Channel: Joy4evertv
Date: 20/08/2022

The Buɣim Chuɣu (Fire Festival) is the first Dagomba festival of the year. It is celebrated in the first month of the Dagomba lunar year,  the Bugum Goli (the month of fire), and is celebrated on the ninth day of the month. The festival is celebrated to remember the "loss of a chief son". During the old days.
The origin of the Bugum Festival dates back to the time when one king lost his dear son. The name of the king and the said son are no longer known. Some also claimed that the event took place before the arrival of the ruling class in modern Dagbon, Mamprugu. The story has it that a child went out to play with his colleagues and as they played, he became tired and went and laid down under a tree. He soon fell asleep. The other children forgot about him and went home when they finished playing. In the evening, the parents (king and wife) did not see him. The king thought he was with the mother and the mother also thought the child was with the father. After supper that the mother called on the king to take the child to bed. It was at that moment that they found that the child was not with any of them. The king ordered his subjects to go around the neighborhood in search of the son. They did not find him. Even, the children he went out with could not remember.