Chart of African Carbohydrates/Starches

Here's the chart I mentioned that I put together to try and organize my understanding of some of the most common starches/carbohydrates I've run across. I'm sure there are many omissions and maybe some errors, so please help me to update and expand this listing.
| (from "Food and Foodways (see July 18, 2007 posting)," in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Popular Cutlure, Sub-Saharan Africa Vol. 5, p. 101-2, © Fran Osseo-Asare, 2007) | |||
| Food Name | Region | Country | Typical Ingredients |
| kenkey/dokono | West Africa | Ghana | fermented corn dough steamed in corn husks or banana leaves |
| banku | “ | Ghana | fermented corn dough, stirred and cooked (soft) |
| koko/akasa | “ | Ghana | fermented corn dough porridge (thin) |
| tuo zaafe | “ | Ghana | thick sorghum or millet porridge |
| ogi | “ | Nigeria | fermented porridge from sorghum, millet, and/or maize |
| gari (farine de manioc) | West/Central Africa | various | dried, grated, fermented cassava meal |
| fufu (1) (in Nigeria, also called iyan or pounded yam) | West/Central Africa) | especially Ghana/Nigeria, Cameroon | peeled, boiled, pounded stiff but elastic dumpling, generally not chewed (yam, cassava, cocoyam, ripe or green plantain, single or combination) |
| fufu (2) | Central Africa | especially DRC, CAR, Cameroon | a stiff porridge made from white corn flour, cassava flour, or a combination (similar to ugali, sadza, pap, nsima) |
| lafun | West Africa | Nigeria | a fibrous, powdery form of fermented cassava similar to, but coarser than, fufu |
| attiéké | West Africa | Côte D’Ivoire | steamed fermented cassava granules |
| miondo, (myondo) bobolo, bâton de manioc | “ | Cameroon | (miondo is a Duala word, bobolo is Ewando) cassava roots soaked and fermented, peeled, mashed, drained, ground, wrapped in banana leaves and boiled or steamed |
| chickwangue (chicouangue) | Central | Congo, Gabon | similar to miondo |
| bidia | “ | DRC, CAR | (Tshiluba) See fufu (2) |
| injera (enjera) | Eastern Africa | Ethiopia/Eritrea | fermented crepe/pancake commonly made from a type of millet called tef (teff), but also with sorghum or wheat |
| canjeero | “ | Somalia | see injera |
| obusera | “ | Uganda | fermented millet porridge |
| uji | “ | Kenya, Tanzania | Swahili word for porridge, thin to thick, made from maize, millet,and/or sorghum |
| ugali | “ | Various, esp. Kenya, Tanzania | Swahili word for a thick porridge (or dumpling) commonly made from cornmeal, but also made with cassava flour |
| posho | “ | Uganda | see ugali |
| atapa (atap) | “ | Uganda | ground dried sweet potato porridge, with ground millet/cassava and flavorings |
| pap | Southern Africa | South Africa | Dutch word for porridge made from cornmeal flour or other staple grain |
| bogobe | “ | Botswana | see pap |
| sadza | “ | Zimbabwe | stiff porridge (or dumpling) made from white field corn flour or red millet flour |
| nsima/nhsima | “ | Zambia, Malawi | see pap |
| xima | “ | Mozambique | corn pap (see pap) |
| amarhewu | “ | South Africa | thin porridge made from slightly fermented cornmeal |
| putu/phutu | “ | South Africa | (Zulu) a crumbly version of pap (see pap) |
| umphokoqo | “ | South Africa | (Xhosa) a crumbly version of pap (see pap) |


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