National Thanksgiving Day Liberia

National Thanksgiving Day is a Liberian public holiday on the first Thursday of November, established by an 1883 legislative statute rooted in traditions brought by the country's founding American-descended settlers. Churches hold services featuring decorated harvest baskets and choir performances, followed by festive family meals, distinct from but historically related to American Thanksgiving.

Harvest baskets, choir robes, and festive family meals fill Liberian churches and homes each first Thursday of November for National Thanksgiving Day, a public holiday established through an 1883 statute of the National Legislature that predates the more commonly known American Thanksgiving traditions many outside Liberia associate with the name.