{"id":1198725,"date":"2022-09-05T11:37:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T11:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/05\/accra-lights-up-in-colours-as-patrons-mark-ngleshie-homowo-with-carnival\/"},"modified":"2022-09-05T11:37:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T11:37:18","slug":"accra-lights-up-in-colours-as-patrons-mark-ngleshie-homowo-with-carnival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/05\/accra-lights-up-in-colours-as-patrons-mark-ngleshie-homowo-with-carnival-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The people of Ngleshie over the weekend marked their Homowo festival with a display of culture and style.<\/p>\n<p>To make this year\u2019s Ngleshie Alata Lafaa Homowo a talk-of-the-town occasion, the traditional leaders organised a first-of-it\u2019s kind carnival across the streets of Weija.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-02-at-4.40.37-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\" class=\"wp-image-2158343 lazy\" title=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\"\/><figcaption>Ngleshie Alata Lafaa Homowo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dubbed the Peace Carnival walk, the colourful display was organised by the newly installed Development queen mother, Naa Korkoi I who has arts and culture as her specialty.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Adom News, she revealed her subjects were trained on how to assemble the carnival outfits among other things to aid in a smooth exercise.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-02-at-4.40.39-PM-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\" class=\"wp-image-2158349 lazy\" title=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\"\/><figcaption>Ngleshie Alata Lafaa Homowo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To the queen mother, culture is the essence of kinship, and as such there was the need to represent the tribe in the most mind-boggling way.<\/p>\n<p>The carnival saw some tribespersons, both males and females don custom-made wear solely made from items used in the preparation of the cultural delicacies.<\/p>\n<p>Palm fruits, branches, thorns, maize husks, pots, calabashes and woven baskets were employed to make the wears.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-02-at-4.40.44-PM-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\" class=\"wp-image-2158352 lazy\" title=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\"\/><figcaption>Ngleshie Alata Lafaa Homowo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Foreigners were also invited to participate and observe the beautiful culture of the Gas.<\/p>\n<p>The carnival came ahead of the\u00a0<em>kpokpoi<\/em>\u00a0festival on Saturday and all-white jams on Sunday to signify peace and long life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More photos below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-02-at-4.40.39-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\" class=\"wp-image-2158340 lazy\" title=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\"\/><figcaption>Ngleshie Alata Lafaa Homowo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-02-at-4.40.38-PM-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\" class=\"wp-image-2158341 lazy\" title=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\"\/><figcaption>Ngleshie Alata Lafaa Homowo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-02-at-4.40.38-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\" class=\"wp-image-2158342 lazy\" title=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\"\/><figcaption>Ngleshie Alata Lafaa Homowo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-02-at-4.40.36-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\" class=\"wp-image-2158344 lazy\" title=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\"\/><figcaption>Ngleshie Alata Lafaa Homowo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-02-at-4.40.42-PM-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\" class=\"wp-image-2158345 lazy\" title=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\"\/><figcaption>Ngleshie Alata Lafaa Homowo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-02-at-4.40.42-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\" class=\"wp-image-2158346 lazy\" title=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\"\/><figcaption>Ngleshie Alata Lafaa Homowo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-02-at-4.40.41-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\" class=\"wp-image-2158347 lazy\" title=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\"\/><figcaption>Ngleshie Alata Lafaa Homowo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-02-at-4.40.40-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\" class=\"wp-image-2158348 lazy\" title=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\"\/><figcaption>Ngleshie Alata Lafaa Homowo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-02-at-4.40.46-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\" class=\"wp-image-2158350 lazy\" title=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\"\/><figcaption>Ngleshie Alata Lafaa Homowo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-02-at-4.40.45-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\" class=\"wp-image-2158351 lazy\" title=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\"\/><figcaption>Ngleshie Alata Lafaa Homowo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-02-at-4.40.44-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\" class=\"wp-image-2158353 lazy\" title=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\"\/><figcaption>Ngleshie Alata Lafaa Homowo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-02-at-4.40.43-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\" class=\"wp-image-2158354 lazy\" title=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\"\/><figcaption>Ngleshie Alata Lafaa Homowo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-02-at-4.40.49-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\" class=\"wp-image-2158355 lazy\" title=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\"\/><figcaption>Ngleshie Alata Lafaa Homowo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-02-at-4.40.48-PM-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\" class=\"wp-image-2158356 lazy\" title=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\"\/><figcaption>Ngleshie Alata Lafaa Homowo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-02-at-4.40.48-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\" class=\"wp-image-2158357 lazy\" title=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\"\/><figcaption>Ngleshie Alata Lafaa Homowo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-02-at-4.40.47-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\" class=\"wp-image-2158358 lazy\" title=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\"\/><figcaption>Ngleshie Alata Lafaa Homowo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-02-at-4.40.46-PM-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\" class=\"wp-image-2158359 lazy\" title=\"Accra lights up in colours as patrons mark Ngleshie Homowo with carnival\"\/><figcaption>Ngleshie Alata Lafaa Homowo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/accra-lights-up-in-colours-as-patrons-mark-ngleshie-homowo-with-carnival\/\">Source<\/a> 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To make this year\u2019s Ngleshie Alata Lafaa Homowo a talk-of-the-town occasion, the traditional leaders organised a first-of-it\u2019s kind carnival across the streets of Weija. Ngleshie Alata Lafaa Homowo Dubbed the Peace Carnival walk, the colourful display was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1198708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[813,14265,6591,19326,6794,627,23930,15501],"class_list":["post-1198725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-accra","tag-carnival","tag-colours","tag-homowo","tag-lights","tag-mark","tag-ngleshie","tag-patrons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}