The people of Sierra Leone consider it an honor to be visited. They adorn themselves in their finest clothes to dance for their guests. Performed to welcome the New Year, new born babies, returning soldiers, and visitors. Olokun is the Yoruba deity of the undertow. The god of the Harvest furrows through the soil, digs holes with one foot, and covers them with the other.
Seeds are sown, the rain falls, the seeds pop open and turn over in the soil.
All is full of energy, and the plants are harvested as food for all. A dance of symbolic wealth. Children are sent into the forest to collect the first calabashes. Then they bring them back to the village to count them and give thanks to God for their harvest. The traditional dance of the Ewe people, a dance of joy and happiness performed simply to enjoy themselves at the end of the week when the work is done.