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GHANAIAN | FISHERFOLK CELEBRATIONS

Twice a year, the Ga fisherfolk go on a float with drums, singing and dancing.

This sight is not only mesmerizing but interesting to behold.

The bright colours of cloth they wear represent the different fishing clans in their communities.

Among the Ga, the tradition serves to signify the beginning of the new year by the local calendar, which begins in September, right after the the Homowo Festival.

Lately, the spectacle also celebrates the upcoming global New Year, which starts in January, after New Years Eve.

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Twice a year, the Ga fisherfolk go on a float with drums, singing and dancing.

This sight is not only mesmerizing but interesting to behold.

The bright colours of cloth they wear represent the different fishing clans in their communities.

Among the Ga, the tradition

serves to signify the beginning of the new year by the local calendar, which begins in September, right after the the Homowo Festival.

Lately, the spectacle also celebrates the upcoming global New Year, which starts in January, after New Years Eve.

#ghana #ghanaian #homowo #photography #art #forghanaians #festivals #twins #melanin #africa #cultmeraki #africanphotographers

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GHANAIAN | HOMOWO: The twins Festival

The Final Destination where the mixture is thrown and the spirit dispossesses the person when the empty bowl is returned to the family house.

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GHANAIAN | HOMOWO : The twins Festival

The Procession.

The spirit takes control over whoever volunteers to carry the bowl from the house to where they mixture thrown.

The persons responsible for carrying the bowl ensures that the ritual bowls does not fall and spill all its contents because it contains the spirits of the twins.

The ritual bowl contains leafs ,blood of the animal they killed(goat and chicken) ,alcohol ,money , the skin of the yam or cassava ,egg and egg shells.

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Homowo : The twins festival.

Portraits of the two women who volunteered to carry the basin.

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Homowo : The twins festival.

Party for the family and friends.

A special meal, called Oto —made of yam and eggs—is eaten alongside other meals. Family, friends and well wishers come around to celebrate with the family and twins. After the merry making, the procession begins.

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Homowo : The Twins Festival

The Basin

A basin is filled with some of the blood and a few parts of the sacrificed animal—head, feet, cassava peels, libation, coins and local herbs. This sits in the compound of the house as the celebration goes on. The family and their guests wash their hands in the basin to connect with the Twin Spirit in appreciation and prayer. Some people make supplication for twins which are seen as a blessing and divine privilege.

People who want twins, while washing their hands, add money and pray with faith that the gods will honour them with twins of their own. The washing of hands in the basin is an extra act of faith, not a required acts. While some pray, offer money and wash their hands in the ‘mix”, others only offer prayers and money((coins) in the basin). They also promise the gods more sacrifice and money in appreciation after the twins they’ve prayed are conceived.

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Homowo: The Twins Festival.

Introducing the Family.

First photo: Ernestina Amartiefui and Augustina Amertiefui, the oldest twins of the family.

Second photo: Dominic and Dominca, the youngest twins in the family with their mother, Dora Doodo.

Third photo: Richard Amertiefui, father of the oldest twins.

Forth Photo: Vida Doodo, mother of the oldest twins and sister to the youngest twins.

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Homowo; Twins Festival

 

The Twins’ Festival is celebrated each year by the Ga people of Greater Accra, Ghana; It is celebrated to show appreciation and honour the gods for blessing a family with twins.

The spirit takes control of a woman who has volunteered to carry the bowl / offering for the gods on behalf of the twins.

During the procession , the woman responsible for carrying the bowl ensures that the ritual bowl does not fall and spill all its contents because it contains the spirits of the twins.

This story will be continued in the next post.

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Ghanaian, by cult meraki.

As creatives, we believe in gaining a deeper understanding of the society we’re from, which our work aims towards serving and inspiring; This is instrumental to our creative exercise and development as a studio.

Cult Meraki presents to you Ghanaian, a perspective driven conversation with Ghana, the place we endeavor to keep our dreams valid in. In this space we wander through the essence of Ghana that keeps us inspired, driven, hopeful and defiant.

Ghanaian a mood-board that showcases excerpts of environment, culture, and society in the space we draw inspiration from. It’s working collection collection of observations and inquiry into the scenes, objects, moments, and life that Ghana frames. Here, we present the everyday and the utopia, the beauty and the phantoms, the city and the village.

Journey with us and observe our exploration of the space Cult Meraki calls home.