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Homowo Festival
The Ga people of Ghana 'hoot at hunger' — celebrating survival, harvest, and ancestral bonds.
📅 August 15 – 3 days
✦ Why It Matters
Homowo ('Hooting at Hunger') commemorates a great famine followed by a bountiful harvest among the Ga people of Accra, Ghana. Ancestors are believed to return for the celebration.
✦ How It Is Observed
Preparation and sharing of kpokpoi (palm soup with fermented corn), libation pouring for ancestors, traditional Ga songs and dances, community feasting, sprinklings of kpokpoi at family gravesites.