The Fordjour festival is an annual festival which is used to mark the eating of new yams by the Banda people. The festival will also be used to mark the 20th anniversary celebration of the reign of Osabarima Okokyiredom Kwadwo Sito I, Paramount Chief of the Banda Traditional Area.

The week long celebrations will start on Saturday, September 10th with a clean-up exercise, tree planting and climate change education at Banda Ahenkro, the District capital.

Other activities lined up include health screening, inter-community football matches and a health walk to Selegb??, a heritage site of the Banda people.

The climax of the celebrations will be on Friday, 16th September where there will be a durbar of the Chiefs and people of the Banda Traditional Area to raise funds for developmental projects and the commissioning of projects executed by the Government.

His Excellency, President John will be the guest speaker at the durbar and fund raising event.  This will be the first time a sitting president will grace the festival.

The Banda District which was carved out of the Tain District in 2012 is made up of one Traditional Area. The District which is barely four years old has been ranked as the fastest developing District in the Brong Ahafo Region. It shares boundaries with the Bole Bomboi, Tain, Jaman North Districts. It also shares boundary with Cote d’Ivoire.

The 400 Megawatts Bui Hydroelectric Power is located in the District. Among the tourist sites in the District include the Banda Mountain Caves, the Bui Forest Reserve and the Hippo Sanctuary which is believed to have the highest concentration of Hippopotamus in the West African sub-region.