久久亚洲国产成人影院-久久亚洲国产的中文-久久亚洲国产高清-久久亚洲国产精品-亚洲图片偷拍自拍-亚洲图色视频

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
Lifestyle
Home / Lifestyle / News

Tribe people celebrate Yam festival for prosperity in Ghana

Updated: 2013-09-23 09:30

The chiefs and residents of the Asogli area in Ghana celebrated their annual traditional Yam Festival praying for good harvest and prosperity in Ho city of the Volta region, about 165 km southeast of Ghana's capital Accra on Saturday.

The celebration of the festival was brought down from Notsie town in neighboring Togo from where the people of the area migrated several hundreds of years ago. It is usually held in September at the end of the rainy season to mark the end of hunger, usher in the celebration of new yam harvest as well as serve as thanksgiving to gods and ancestors for a bumper harvest and offer prayers for good health and prosperity for all in the coming years through the libration.

The festival is named after one of the most common foods in many African countries -- Yam, a large root vegetable that looks like a tube. The oral history has it that a hunter discovered the crop in the forest. It was during the famine period that instead of taking his newly discovered tuber home, he decided to hide it in the soil for use some other time. When he later went back for it, the tuber had germinated and grown bigger which helped the tribe go through the famine.

According to local people, the yams harvested are boiled and mashed as the event goes on and is then offered to the gods and ancestors first before distributing them to the villagers, that they carry out as their way of thanksgiving to the spirits for good health and plentiful harvest.

Several programs are lined up for the celebration of the event but the most notable and colorful among them is the gathering of chiefs and their subjects at the grounds where a number of cultural activities take place to climax the activities for the celebration.

When Xinhua correspondents arrived at the town at about 11:30 a. m., thousands of people from the local communities had gather at the Ho stadium to celebrate the day with rich traditional culture. Excited tribe people wearing the colorful traditional clothes, delivered a grand show with drumming, singing and dancing.

The smartly dressed chiefs, led by Togbe Afede the 14th, the paramount chief of the Asogli Traditional Area, wearing the traditional clothes, were ushered into the meeting place in a multicolored majestic procession.

This day is also the 10th anniversary of the enstoolment of Togbe Afede as the paramount chief of the area. During the speech, he touched on the challenges facing the areas and asked people to preserve the peace, work hard to reduce poverty and promote development of the country.

"Without pace, love, and unity, we will not move forward," he said, "today's celebration has to bring accountability to ourselves and also to think of how to bring development to the nation and joy to our people."

The celebration was also joined at the durbar by President John Dramani Mahama, government officials and dignitaries and tourists at home and abroad including some ambassadors.

President Mahama sent his wishes to local people and congratulation for the paramount chief in his speech, calling all Ghanaian to stand together to build the country."

"It is my hope that, the peace will be permanent peace," he president noted, "the government is going to work with you and stand by your side to ensure the traditional areas live in peace and appropriate development."

The festival, besides being a symbolic commencement of harvest time, is also a huge homecoming event lasting from mid-August to the late September. Awards are presented to farmers who harvest the heaviest yam after they have been weighed by the traditional authorities.

Tribe people celebrate Yam festival for prosperity in Ghana

Tribe people celebrate Yam festival for prosperity in Ghana

A simple but pure festival tradition?

Foreign chains responding to rising demand?

Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
主站蜘蛛池模板: 日本高清在线中文字幕网 | 久草在线视频中文 | 九九热国产精品视频 | 青青青免费手机版视频在线观看 | 国产精品亚洲第五区在线 | 久久久久久a亚洲欧洲aⅴ | 亚洲逼| 国内精品视频成人一区二区 | 国产成人免费午夜性视频 | 精品国产高清久久久久久小说 | 真实国产乱人伦在线视频播放 | 成人男女啪啪免费观看网站 | 久久久久久久久久免费视频 | 久久久免费精品 | 亚洲精品日本高清中文字幕 | 免费精品国产 | 中国美女一级黄色片 | 久久久久一 | 青草久草| 欧美高清不卡 | 日本一线一区二区三区免费视频 | 亚洲国产综合人成综合网站00 | 久久精品免视国产 | 99香蕉网| 欧美视频自拍偷拍 | 欧美性69| 加勒比综合网 | 国产精品亚洲综合天堂夜夜 | 日韩精品永久免费播放平台 | 美女视频很黄很a免费国产 美女视频黄.免费网址 | 久久97视频| 中文字幕在线欧美 | 欧美日韩国产在线观看一区二区三区 | 亚洲欧美大片 | 国产精品嘿咻嘿咻在线播放 | 国产在线精品一区二区三区不卡 | 毛片大全在线 | 毛片在线播放网址 | 国内精品久久久久久野外 | 日韩欧美不卡一区二区三区 | 久久久综合网 |