Sefwi Sui is a small farming community in Ghana with a population of approximately 3,000 people. A

Jewish community Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

from the

House of Israel The Israelites (; , , ) were a group of ancient Semitic-speaking peoples, Semitic-speaking tribes in the ancient Near East who, during the Iron Age, inhabited a part of Canaan. The earliest recorded evidence of a people by the name of Israel ...

lives in Sefwi Sui. Other Jews from the House of Israel live in Sefwi Wiawso, a larger community located twenty miles from Sefwi Sui. Like other communities in the

Western North Region The Western North Region is one of the six new regions of Ghana created in 2019. The region is bounded by the Ivory Coast ( Comoé District) on the west, the Central region in the southeast, and the Ashanti, Ahafo, Bono East and Bono regions ...

of Ghana, the

Alluolue Festival Alluolue (Yam, Eluo) Festival is a Ghanaian annual festival celebrated by the chiefs and people of Sefwi Wiawso and Sefwi Bekwai in the Western North region, formally Western region of Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the R ...

is celebrated annually in Sefwi Sui.

References

{{Reflist House of Israel (Ghana) Jewish communities Populated places in the Western North Region Sefwi people