People in Liberia gather for jollof rice and pepper chicken, as well as fare familiar to American Thanksgiving dinners such as cornbread and collard greens
is almost certain to follow. But America is not the only country that celebrates Thanksgiving. Where else observes the holiday?A daily newsletter with the best of our journalismHarvest festivals have taken place for thousands of years in myriad cultures. China’s Mid-Autumn Festival, at which dense, round pastries calledare eaten, stems from a millennia-old Chinese practice of moon worship. Jews celebrate Sukkot, a week-long holiday commemorating an ancient pilgrimage linked to the harvest.
Canada’s is. Not to be outshone by their North American neighbours, many Canadians insist that the origins of their Thanksgiving predate those of the United States. The first supposedly took place in 1578, when an expedition led by Martin Frobisher, an English sailor, held a ceremony in present-day Nunavut, a northern territory, to celebrate the successful crossing. In 1879 Canada’s Parliament established a national Thanksgiving Day, though the exact date has varied.
Another country that celebrates Thanksgiving is 7,000km from Cape Cod. Liberia, a west African state of 5m people, was founded in 1847 by freed American slaves . Today their descendents, known as Americo-Liberians, still number around 120,000. Liberia’s Thanksgiving is on the first Thursday of November, and the mostly Christian country uses the occasion as a day of worship.
A handful of other places observe the holiday in their own ways, most because of America. Grenada celebrates Thanksgiving on October 25th, though instead of marking the start of the harvest it commemorates an American invasion of 1983, when soldiers stopped a coup. And many Filipinos still mark the day, a hangover from the country’s time as an American colony during the first half of the 20th century.
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