Homowo

A street in Accra. Many people from nearby neighborhoods and the surrounding area flock to the city center in order to attend the celebration of the Homowo Festival, the annual main festival of the Ga, around 1900.
Teshie Homowo Festival Ban on Singing & Drumming Ritual Ceremony.
Homowo festival rituals.
A woman wearing a white cloth carries a pot while clad in green vines walks alongside two men wearing white while also pooring libation
Nungua Homowo Festival Painting.

Homowo is a festival celebrated by the Ga people of Ghana in the Greater Accra Region.[1] The festival starts at the end of April into May with the planting of crops (mainly millet) before the rainy season starts. The Ga people celebrate Homowo in the remembrance of famine that once happened in their history in precolonial Ghana.[1] The Ga Homowo or Harvest Custom is an annual tradition among the Accra people, with its origin tied to the Native Calendar and the Damte Dsanwe people of the Asere Quarter. Asere is a sub-division of the Ga Division in the Accra District of the Gold Coast Colony.[2]

  1. ^ a b "Homowo Festival". www.ghanaweb.com. Retrieved 2023-10-14.
  2. ^ "Asere Mantse Sets up Educational Fund". Retrieved 2023-09-07.