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Participants at Homowo Festival, Oregon, 1996

Creator
Photographer
Date
  • 1996
Description
  • Beginning in 1986, Obo Addy and his wife Susan formed the Homowo African Arts and Cultures organization, a virtual cultural center with offerings in schools, parks, community centers, and performance venues all over the country. Obo Addy (1936-2012) was a world-renowned master in the traditional music and dance of the many cultures in Ghana; he settled in Oregon in 1978. Homowo is a Ghanaian harvest festival featuring music, dance, food, and crafts. The Ga people celebrate Homowo in the remembrance of the famine that occurred in pre-colonial Ghana. Homowo African Arts and Cultures organized an annual Homowo Festival throughout the 1990s-2000s. After Addy’s passing in 2012, his wife created the Obo Addy Legacy Project. Six years later, and after 32 years of introducing people to the positive music and culture of Ghana, the Obo Addy Legacy Project closed in 2018. The Oregon Multicultural Archives is home to the Obo Addy Legacy Project Collection.
Subject
Work Type
Location
Identifier
  • p345:Homowo-Festival-1996-04
Local Collection Name
Local Collection ID
  • P345
Institution
Submission Date
  • 06/24/2020
Modified
  • 10/14/2022
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APA

OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Oregon State University. (20 Mar 2025). Participants at Homowo Festival, Oregon, 1996 Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/fx71d190m

MLA

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Chicago

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Wiki

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Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Williams, Chuck, 1943-2016 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80156869
2 Williams, Chuck, 1943-2016 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80156869
3 Homowo Festival http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16267971
4 Festivals http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047932
5 photographs http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300046300
6 color photographs http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300128359
7 Portland >> Clackamas/Multnomah/Washington Counties >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5746545/
8 Chuck Williams Photographs (P 345) http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/localCollectionName/p_345
9 Oregon State University http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80017721

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