Origin and History of Thanksgiving Day in Africa
Africa is a continent which is well known for celebrating colorful and vibrant festivals. Homowo is one of the African festivals celebrated by the Ga people from the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The word ‘Homowo’ means ‘making fun of hunger’ or ‘hooted at hunger’. According to the traditional African history, there was a time when rains completely stopped pouring. Hence, a deadly famine spread throughout the southern Accra Plains, where majority of the Ga people resided. Finally when rains returned and ended the drought; food became plentiful that people celebrated the occasion with happiness. Since then Homowo is a festival which is renowned for the bumper harvest that ended the hunger of the Ga people. The occasion is generally celebrated in the month of August, which marks the end of the rainy season.
