Homowo

E701105

Homowo is a major traditional harvest festival of the Ga people of Ghana, marked by rituals, drumming, dancing, and the symbolic “hooting at hunger.”

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Homowo canonical 6

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural event ⓘ
festival ⓘ
harvest festival ⓘ
basedOn traditional Ga calendar ⓘ
celebratedBy Ga people ⓘ
centralLocation Ga Mashie ⓘ
Jamestown ⓘ
Ussher Town ⓘ
country Ghana ⓘ
culturalSignificance affirmation of social cohesion ⓘ
intergenerational family reunion ⓘ
marker of Ga identity ⓘ
ethnicGroupContext Ga-Adangbe ⓘ
hasActivity dancing ⓘ
drumming ⓘ
feasting ⓘ
singing ⓘ
traditional prayers ⓘ
hasDanceType traditional Ga dances ⓘ
hasMusicType traditional Ga drumming ⓘ
hasRitual hooting at hunger ⓘ
libation pouring ⓘ
procession of chiefs ⓘ
sprinkling of kpokpoi ⓘ
visiting family houses ⓘ
hasSymbolicMeaning celebration of bumper harvest ⓘ
mocking hunger ⓘ
remembrance of past famine ⓘ
thanksgiving to deities and ancestors ⓘ
languageOfSongs Ga ⓘ
mainFood kpokpoi ⓘ
palm-nut soup ⓘ
observedIn Accra ⓘ
La ⓘ
Nungua ⓘ
Osu ⓘ
Tema ⓘ
Teshie ⓘ
preFestivalRitual ban on drumming ⓘ
ban on noise-making ⓘ
fasting and purification ⓘ
planting of maize ⓘ
region Greater Accra Region ⓘ
religiousContext Ga traditional religion ⓘ
religiousSignificance honouring ancestors ⓘ
invoking protection for the coming year ⓘ
timeOfYear August ⓘ
September ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Teshie → hasFestival → Homowo ⓘ
Teshie → celebrates → Homowo ⓘ
Osu → hasFestival → Homowo ⓘ
Ga-Adangbe → festival → Homowo ⓘ
Osu (Ga) → hasFestival → Homowo ⓘ
Ningo → hasFestival → Homowo ⓘ