The Mystery And The Magic Of Giving Thanks
This Thanksgiving, George Mwinnyaa thinks back to his boyhood in Ghana — when a failure to give thanks was thought to have dire consequences.
This Thanksgiving I will be thinking about turkey, of course.
But also about chickens and roosters.
I now live in the United States, but I grew up in Ghana, where there is no national holiday of Thanksgiving. But giving thanks is a very important part of my culture.
Almost every week my father would sacrifice chickens to the rivers, the mountains, the ancestors and the gods.
