The British High Commissioner attends the Homowo celebrations.
The British High Commissioner to Ghana, Naa Okaitoo Nrami I, Gbese Noyaa Manye, joined the people of Ga Mashie on Saturday, August 13, 2022, to mark this year's Homowo festivities.
Harriet Thompson, the Development Queen Mother of Gbese with the stool name Naa Okaitoo Nrami I, Gbese Noyaa Manye, delighted in the Homowo celebrations.
She helped the Gbese Mantse, Royal Majesty, Nii Ayi Bonte II, sprinkle kpokpoi on Accra's main streets.
Nii Ayi Bonte II is the first to sprinkle kpokpoi to signal the start of hooting at hunger for other chiefs to follow.
The festival drew some tourists and locals who came to see the celebration and the beating of the Odadaoo drums by the Gbese Mantse to signal the start of the festivities.
The British High Commissioner expressed her delight in joining in the celebrations in an exclusive interview with GhanaWeb.
"It's been an honor to be a part of the Homowo festival, and I'm honored to have been appointed as a queen mother for the Gbese kingdom." "Today's theme is to put an end to a period of hooting at hunger," she explained.
"It reminds us of what happened to people who came before us, the values and traditions that we must still respect today, and the joy of putting an end to hunger and ensuring that people do not go hungry in the future," she added.
Homowo, which literally means "to hoot at hunger," is a pillar of the rich Ga culture that symbolizes the people's historic victory over famine.
read also : See the Kulungu Stone, which details the assassination attempts on Nkrumah's life.
According to history, Ghana's first president, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, was the target of several assassination attempts, some of which were bombings.
The Kulungugu bomb attack, however, is the most well-known of the attacks and assassination attempts.
According to history, Kwame Nkrumah stopped in Kulungu on his way to Accra from Burkina Faso, where he met with then-Burkinabe President Maurice Yameogo about plans to build a hydroelectric project on the Volta River.
After some persuasion from his team, Nkrumah decided to stop at Kulungu, where some schoolchildren had been waiting since the morning to greet the president.
Unbeknownst to Nkrumah, there was a sinister plan afoot, as someone had planted a bomb in a bouquet that was to be presented to Kwame Nkrumah.
One of the students, later known as Elizabeth Asantewaa, was assigned to deliver the flowers to President Nkrumah.
Captain Samuel Buckman, who was part of Kwame Nkrumah's security detail, detected the bombs in the flower and saved Kwame Nkrumah's life.
The young girl, on the other hand, was injured but survived.
A memorial stone was placed at the site to commemorate the August 1, 1962 incident.
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