Homowo Festival

Homowo is a harvest festival celebrated annually by the Ga people of southern Ghana, principally around the Greater Accra Region. The name Homowo means "hooting at hunger" in Ga, recalling a historical famine that the ancestors survived after a good harvest. Celebrations typically take place between May and August, beginning with the planting of millet, followed by a ban on drumming and noise-making to allow the crops to grow. The festival culminates in a procession and the sharing of kpokpoi (steamed cornmeal eaten with palm-nut soup), prepared as a thanksgiving meal to mark the end of the planting period.