HOMOWO

FESTIVAL
PRESENTED BY DWAMENA ABIGAIL NKANSAH
04/2021/9808D
 TABLE OF CONTENT
WHAT IS HOMOWO FESTIVAL ABOUT
WHY IS HOMOWO CELEBRATED
WHAT DOES HOMOWO MEAN IN GA’S
WHEN IS HOMOWO FESTIVAL CELEBRATED
HOW DID HOMOWO CAME ABOUT
WHAT IS THE BRIEF HISTORY ABOUT THE HOMOWO FESTIVAL
WHAT ARE THE ACTIVITIES DONE DURING HOMOWO FESTIVAL
WHAT RELIGION IS HOMOWO FESTIVAL CELEBRATED
WHAT IS HOMOWO FESTIVAL ABOUT

Homowo is a harvest festival celebrated by the Ga people of Ghana in the Greater Accra Region.
The festival starts in the month of August with the planting of crops before the rainy season starts.
During the festival, they perform a dance called Kpanlogo.
 WHY IS HOMOWO CELEBRATED
Homowo means hooting at and ridiculing hunger. It is an annual festival to commemorate the day
the ancestors won victory over hunger, hooted at it and ridiculed it with songs and dancing.
 WHAT DOES HOMOWO MEAN IN
GA’S

The word Homowo (Homo - hunger, wo - hoot) can mean "to hoot (or jeer) at
hunger" in the Ga language. The tradition of Homowo started with a period of
hunger leading to famine due to failure of the seasonal rains needed by crops in
the Greater Accra Region, where the Ga people dwell.
 WHEN IS HOMOWO FESTIVAL CELEBRATED

The festival starts in the month of August with the planting

of crops (mainly maize and yam) before the rainy
season starts. During the festival, they perform a dance
called Kpanlogo. The Ga people celebrate Homowo in the
remembrance of the famine that once happened in their
history in precolonial Ghana.
 HOW DID HOMOWO CAME ABOUT

The tradition of Homowo started with a period of hunger leading to famine due to failure of the
seasonal rains needed by crops in the Greater Accra Region, where the Ga people predominantly
dwell. When the rains returned to normal, the Ga people celebrated by creating the Homowo
festival, hence its name and meaning.
 WHAT IS THE BRIEF HISTORY ABOUT THE
HOMOWO FESTIVAL

Homowo is a harvest festival celebrated by the Ga people of Ghana in the

Greater Accra Region. The festival starts in the month of August with the
planting of crops (mainly maize and yam) before the rainy season starts. During
the festival, they perform a dance called Kpanlogo. The Ga people celebrate
Homowo in the remembrance of the famine that once happened in their history in
precolonial Ghana.
 WHAT ARE THE ACTIVITIES DONE DURING
HOMOWO FESTIVAL

It is characterised by rituals such as the sprinkling of “KPOKPOI” (the festival dish) to the gods
and ancestors for spiritual protection, a procession of twins through the principal streets,
traditional drumming and dancing, and general merrymaking.
 WHAT RELIGION IS HOMOWO FESTIVAL
CELEBRATED

The homowo festival of the Ga tribe is believed to have a lineage from the Jewish tribe and its
ancestral tradition of the Jewish Passover feast