Togbe Afede XIV, the king of Asogli State of Ghana, attends the Yam Festival in Ho, the Volta Regional Capital, 165 km northeast of Ghana's capital Accra, Sept. 21, 2013. The chiefs and people of the Asogli Traditional Area in Ghana celebrated their annual Yam Festival in Ho on Saturday. The celebration of the festival was brought down from Notsie in neighboring Togo from where the people of the area migrated several hundreds of years ago. It is usually held in Sept. at the end of the rainy season to mark the end of hunger, usher in the celebration of new yam harvest as well as serving as thanksgiving to ancestors for a bumper harvest and offer prayers for good health and prosperity for all in the coming years. Yam is a large root vegetable that looks like a tube. (Xinhua/Shao Haijun)

Dancers from the Islamic community perform at the Yam Festival in Ho, the Volta Regional Capital, 165 km northeast of Ghana's capital Accra, Sept. 21, 2013. The chiefs and people of the Asogli Traditional Area in Ghana celebrated their annual Yam Festival in Ho on Saturday. The celebration of the festival was brought down from Notsie in neighboring Togo from where the people of the area migrated several hundreds of years ago. It is usually held in Sept. at the end of the rainy season to mark the end of hunger, usher in the celebration of new yam harvest as well as serving as thanksgiving to ancestors for a bumper harvest and offer prayers for good health and prosperity for all in the coming years. Yam is a large root vegetable that looks like a tube. (Xinhua/Shao Haijun)

Women dance at the Yam Festival in Ho, the Volta Regional Capital, 165 km northeast of Ghana's capital Accra, Sept. 21, 2013. The chiefs and people of the Asogli Traditional Area in Ghana celebrated their annual Yam Festival in Ho on Saturday. The celebration of the festival was brought down from Notsie in neighboring Togo from where the people of the area migrated several hundreds of years ago. It is usually held in Sept. at the end of the rainy season to mark the end of hunger, usher in the celebration of new yam harvest as well as serving as thanksgiving to ancestors for a bumper harvest and offer prayers for good health and prosperity for all in the coming years. Yam is a large root vegetable that looks like a tube. (Xinhua/Shao Haijun)

A boy palys Ghana's traditional instrument at the Yam Festival in Ho, the Volta Regional Capital, 165 km northeast of Ghana's capital Accra, Sept. 21, 2013. The chiefs and people of the Asogli Traditional Area in Ghana celebrated their annual Yam Festival in Ho on Saturday. The celebration of the festival was brought down from Notsie in neighboring Togo from where the people of the area migrated several hundreds of years ago. It is usually held in Sept. at the end of the rainy season to mark the end of hunger, usher in the celebration of new yam harvest as well as serving as thanksgiving to ancestors for a bumper harvest and offer prayers for good health and prosperity for all in the coming years. Yam is a large root vegetable that looks like a tube. (Xinhua/Shao Haijun)

One of the divisional chiefs of Asogli State delievers a speech at the Yam Festival in Ho, the Volta Regional Capital, 165 km northeast of Ghana's capital Accra, Sept. 21, 2013. The chiefs and people of the Asogli Traditional Area in Ghana celebrated their annual Yam Festival in Ho on Saturday. The celebration of the festival was brought down from Notsie in neighboring Togo from where the people of the area migrated several hundreds of years ago. It is usually held in Sept. at the end of the rainy season to mark the end of hunger, usher in the celebration of new yam harvest as well as serving as thanksgiving to ancestors for a bumper harvest and offer prayers for good health and prosperity for all in the coming years. Yam is a large root vegetable that looks like a tube. (Xinhua/Shao Haijun)