Hogbetsotso Boxing: Saviour Gad faces Kenyan Boxer at Aborigines for Super Middleweight
By Edzorna Francis Mensah
Saviour Gad, a Ghanaian skilled boxer who holds the National Champion title, will battle it out with Kenyan boxer Konney for Super Middleweight on 1st November 2024 at Aborigines Beach Resort, a number of hours from the Hogbetsotso Za, slated for 2nd November 2024.
Saviour Gad from Ketu South within the Volta Region has to this point appeared ten (10) occasions for worldwide fights and gained 9 (9) and sources near his camp, has it that, Saviour is nicely ready to struggle his eleventh match this weekend in honour of Awomefia of Anlo State, Togbui Sri III beneath Aborigines Boxing Promotions. Mr. Gad will early January 2025 face UK Boxer Frezzy Macbone to start the yr.
The Hogbetsotso pageant is well known by the chiefs and other people of Anlo within the Volta Region of Ghana. Some main Anlo cities embody Anloga (capital), Keta, Kedzi, Vodza, Whuti, Srogboe, Tegbi, Dzita, Abor, Anlo Afiadenyigba, Anyako, Konu, Alakple, Atsito, Atiavi, Deʋegodo, Atorkor, Tsiame and lots of different villages.
The pageant is well known yearly on the primary Saturday within the month of November at Anloga, the customary and ritual capital of the Anlo state.
The identify of the pageant is derived from the Ewe language and interprets because the pageant of exodus. or “coming from Hogbe (Notsie)”. The celebration of the pageant was instituted about 4 many years in the past.
The Anlo are a bunch of individuals from a tribe on the jap coast of Ghana. Prior to their settling of their current location, they lived in Notsie, a city in present-day Togo. It is believed that that they had migrated from southern Sudan via Oyo, an space in Nigeria, Ketou in Benin and Adja Tado in Togo to settle in Notsie.
Oral custom has it that they lived beneath a depraved king, Togbe Agorkoli (Agor Akorli). In order to flee his tyrannical rule they needed to create a gap within the earthen wall that surrounded their city.
They achieved this by instructing the ladies to pour all their wastewater at one explicit place within the wall.
Over time the spot grew to become tender, thereby permitting the city folks to interrupt via the wall and escape via the ensuing mud. Tradition additionally holds that, to confuse their pursuers, shopping for time to make good their escape, they walked backwards with their faces in direction of the city in order that their footprints appeared to enter the city.
The pageant is historically noticed on the primary Saturday in November, that includes numerous ceremonies.
These ceremonies embody a peace-making interval throughout which all disputes are resolved via amicable options. It is believed that the explanation for this conventional interval of peacemaking is that the folks imagine their ancestors lived in concord with themselves all via their escape from Notsie and that it was this character that made their sojourn a hit.
There can be a purification ceremony of the ceremonial stools (the place the Ewe imagine the ancestral spirits reside) via the pouring of libations. This is adopted by common cleansing the place all of the villages are swept and garbage burnt.
This cleansing ceremony begins on the Volta River and ends after a number of days on the Mono River within the Republic of Togo. The climax of the pageant includes a durbar of the chiefs and other people of Anlo. The chiefs costume in vibrant regalia Kete/ kente, and obtain homage from their topics on the durbar grounds. Various types of dancing, singing and merry-making characterize your entire pageant.
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