{"id":344260,"date":"2017-08-12T11:05:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T11:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=344260"},"modified":"2017-08-12T11:05:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T11:05:31","slug":"ga-mashie-to-celebrate-homowo-festival-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/08\/ga-mashie-to-celebrate-homowo-festival-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Ga Mashie to celebrate Homowo festival today"},"content":{"rendered":"
The people of Ga Mashie will today celebrate the annual Homowo festival in Accra.<\/p>\n
Homowo which means “hooting at hunger” is usually preceded by a month long ban on noise making and drumming in the capital city, Accra.<\/p>\n
It begins with the sowing of millet by the traditional priests in May every year.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”UPwGR71cnnTbh4q70i9x8QRdRRwmNOk7″]The festival is organized at varying times by different quarters of the Ga tribe and celebrated with the sprinkling of \u2018Kpokpoe\u2019 [a mixture of palm soup and ground corn] by the traditional authorities.<\/p>\n
The Ga-Mashie group celebrates the festival first followed by other towns including the La and Teshie groups.<\/p>\n
Homowo recounts the migration of the Gas and reveals their agricultural success in their new settlement.<\/p>\n
According to Ga oral tradition, a severe famine broke out among the people during their migration to present day Accra.<\/p>\n
They were inspired by the famine to embark on massive food production exercises which eventually yielded them bumper harvests.<\/p>\n
Their hunger ended and with great joy, they \u201chooted at hunger.\u201d<\/p>\n
–<\/p>\n
By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The people of Ga Mashie will today celebrate the annual Homowo festival in Accra. Homowo which means “hooting at hunger” is usually preceded by a month long ban on noise making and drumming in the capital city, Accra. It begins with the sowing of millet by the traditional priests in May every year. [contextly_sidebar id=”UPwGR71cnnTbh4q70i9x8QRdRRwmNOk7″]The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,11],"tags":[10128,3,10114],"yoast_head":"\n