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Accra Homowo through time

Accra 1900–2022 3 photos of this spot

3 photographs taken at the same spot in Accra, spanning 1900–2022 — 1 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

Around 1900 this image was taken in Accra during Homowo, the annual harvest festival of the Ga people marking the end of a historic famine with feasting, drumming, and the ceremonial sprinkling of kpokpoi, a maize and palm-nut dish.

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Accra Homowo 1900 Around 1900 this image was taken in Accra during Homowo, the annual harvest festival of the Ga people marking the end of a historic famine with feasting, drumming, and the ceremonial sprinkling of kpokpoi, a maize and palm-nut dish.

Old House in Accra 2022 An old house in Accra, Ghana's capital on the Gulf of Guinea, photographed in 2022.

Old building 2 2022 An older building stands along a street in Accra in this 2022 photograph, capturing a corner of Ghana's capital and largest city on the Gulf of Guinea coast, where colonial-era structures still stand among newer development.