Evidently Founders' Day is the Ghanaian equivalent of Thanksgiving. You eat until it hurts in order to give thanks to Kwame Nkrumah for making Ghana free forever. I also learned that Ghanaians find the spectacle of white people eating fufu to be a celebratory event in itself. No sooner had I dipped my hand in the palm nut soup to start eating the fufu then a half a dozen people broke out their cameras to photograph me.
Not sure I would agree to Founder's Day being the equivalent of Thanksgiving, but if that is your perspective, fine. It's actually a pretty new holiday anyway. But let's face it, a day off is a good reason/excuse to have a good time. And as for the fufu eating by obronis, oh well, what can I say? except to tell those watching that I eat fufu at least once or more a week!
ReplyDeletePlease post the photos of you eating fufu on Founder's Day.
ReplyDeleteSam, I will see if I can get some of the graduate students to give me copies of the photographs.
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