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Homowo庆典上，正在舞台上表演的舞者尼克森(Tanya
Nicholson)及阿姆(Otu
Amoo) ，1998年8月21日
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奥勒岗波特兰(Portland)的Homowo感恩节庆典
地方性遗产
对美国人来说，感恩节(Thanksgiving
Day)是一个对身旁所有事物(包括食物)表达感谢的节日。但在非洲的迦纳(Ghana)，当地人们有他们自己的感恩节，叫做Homowo。
很久以前，当嗄人(Ga)穿越非洲抵达非洲大陆的西海岸时，他们遭遇了许多艰难，如：极度饥饿。
这趟旅程耗时多年，但他们互相帮助，一起渡过艰困的时期并存活在现在的迦纳国。
定居并获得丰收后，他们拥有所有所需的食物。
因此他们举办了一个名为Homowo的收割庆祝活动，藉以重演他们旅程中所经历的饥饿。
Homowo在迦纳语中的意义是「轰赶、嘲弄饥饿」。
就像是迦纳的嗄人所举行的欢庆庆典，奥勒岗波特兰的Homowo庆典是一个代表款待及感恩的收割节日。
人们藉由这项始于1989年的庆典来分享非洲常规并将此常规传承给新世代。
庆典内有许多充满喜悦的舞蹈及歌唱，当然还包括了大量的食物！
For Americans, Thanksgiving Day is a holiday when we give thanks for all our blessings, including food. In Ghana, Africa, people also have their own type of Thanksgiving, called Homowo.
Long ago, when the Ga people were traveling across Africa to reach the continent's western coast, they experienced many hardships, including great hunger. They traveled for many years, but they helped each other through difficult times and survived to settle in what is now known as the country of Ghana. After they settled and their harvests were plentiful, they had all the food they needed. They held a harvest festival, called Homowo, that mocked the hunger that they had suffered during their journey. The word homowo can mean "hooting or jeering at hunger" in the Ghanian language.
The Homowo festival in Portland, Oregon, is a harvest holiday of welcoming and thanksgiving, like the one celebrated by the Ga people of Ghana. The festival began in 1989 as a way for people to share the traditions of Africa and pass them on to new generations. There is a lot of joyful dancing and singing and, of course, lots of food!
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