GH Swagg:

About the bolded... My brother don't even go there ooo! That one no be true!

Have you ever beaten your finger eating your soup? I guess not. Try our fufu soups and see what would happen

Wana_G: I’m beginning to think Keri Hilson is a Nigerian or she has Nigerian blood in her.

A few months back, she tweeted about her love for Flavour’s Nwa Baby, and now she’s making Fufu.

The singer posted the picture on her instagram page, captioning it “making fufu is a reaaal workout! gotta put your back into it


Full story: http://www.360nobs.com/2013/05/closet-nigerian-keri-hilson-makes-a-humongous-bowl-of-fufu-photo/

GH Swagg:

My friend what you just described are two different foods. One is called fufu and the other akpu. You have tasted both and confirmed that they are not the same in terms of texture and taste. You made it clear that what Ghanaians call fufu doesn't taste and feel like akpu. So it makes sense that they have different names.

Now, since Nigerians don’t eat what Ghanaians call fufu and Ghanaians don’t eat what Nigerians call akpu, can we just agree that fufu is distinctively Ghanaian while akpu is Nigerian? I’ll love to one day try akpu

And what is posted on Wikipedia is about fufu not akpu LOL!

Iykeponti: Fufu wey our igbo 4fadas use feed ghanian refugees in those dayz , nawa-oo

Royal^Pearl^:
WhIle you were trying to come across as educated in ghanaian fufu you only further proved your lack of knowledge. There are different types of fufu, yam, cassava, cocoa etc and fufu varies some prefer it soft and some prefer it more firm. Am sure Ghanaian fufu and Nigeria fufu taste different because of the method prepared just like the way our jollof rice taste different from the Nigerian jollof rice.

rhymz: yeah right. . . Wait until you see real Nigerian fufu or Akpu. Trust me Ghanaians don't eat Fufu better than Igbos or Calabar ppl. It is a common staple associated with them in Nigeria. We dont use plantain or whatever, strictly cassava. And igbos do it quite differently from Calabar that roast theirs. We have the best soups for fufu than ghanaians trust me on that.

Crixina: thanks prof.for the lecture on fufu 101.then if u knw ther r different kinds and methods of preparing fufu,then u should knw enough not to make it sound like its a ghananian food,cos an average ghananian will quickly tink of the yam paste when fufu is being mentioned,while an average nigerian will tink of cassava paste.hence that still goes bk to my first point that fufu may mean different things to these countries.

Crixina: i agree wit ur post,but nt wit the part that says calabar roast their fufu,we dnt,i can tel u da process frm when the cassava is brot frm the farm,till when it is served for lunch with hot 'afang or edikanikong soup'but let me spare u da details by just saying we stir the paste in a pot after mixing with a moderate quantity of water,kind of like stirring ur semovita.

ItsModella: The Yorubas refer to akpu as fufu. Akpu is just the Igbo name for what the Yoruba and other people in South-Western Nigeria call fufu. So saying fufu is distinctively Ghanaian is laughable. The Togolese eat fufu, the Liberians eat fufu, those in Benin Republic eat fufu (and yes, they call it fufu). So what are you saying?

GH Swagg:

LOL! The average Ghanaian never thinks of yam when it comes to fufu. We don't eat pounded yam. That is a Nigerian dish.

GH Swagg:

LOL! The average Ghanaian never thinks of yam when it comes to fufu. We don't eat pounded yam. That is a Nigerian dish.

ItsModella: The Yorubas refer to akpu as fufu. Akpu is just the Igbo name for what the Yoruba and other people in South-Western Nigeria call fufu. So saying fufu is distinctively Ghanaian is laughable. The Togolese eat fufu, the Liberians eat fufu, those in Benin Republic eat fufu (and yes, they call it fufu). So what are you saying?

rhymz: . . .hahahah. . Neither does an average Nigerian think Ghanaian when fufu is mentioned.

Crixina: thanks prof.for the lecture on fufu 101.then if u knw ther r different kinds and methods of preparing fufu,then u should knw enough not to make it sound like its a ghananian food, cos an average ghananian will quickly tink of the yam paste when fufu is being mentioned, while an average nigerian will tink of cassava paste.hence that still goes bk to my first point that fufu may mean different things to these countries.

Yungwizzzy: Anoda nigeria attention seeker. Is she on her way 2 nigeria again?

Abeg make 1 Nlder wer God go bless buy dis dude beta phn na, dis chinko wer i dey use nor b him. Pm me abeg. Seun hw fa

GH Swagg:

See bolded... The average Ghanaian never thinks of yam paste when fufu is mentioned. Actually only few people like to add yam to the cassava to reduce the starch in the cassava.

Yam itself is a starchy food. So you add yam to cassava to reduce the starch? That's adding starch to starch to reduce the starch.

ItsModella:
Yam itself is a starchy food. So you add yam to cassava to reduce the starch? That's adding starch to starch to reduce the starch.

ItsModella:
Yam itself is a starchy food. So you add yam to cassava to reduce the starch? That's adding starch to starch to reduce the starch.

ItsModella:
Yam itself is a starchy food. So you add yam to cassava to reduce the starch? That's adding starch to starch to reduce the starch.

alanmwene: I don't think "fufu" is a ghanian "invention"!
Congo:It is called badi,ugali,etc....The healthiest one is with maize!
Zimbabwe: saza
Kenya:ugali
Tanzania:ugali
Almost everywhere in Africa,people eat "fufu"!
By the way,there isn't so much creativity in making fufu!

Kajina:

What you have listed are not fufu. The Zimbabwe sadza and Congolese, Kenyan and Tanzanian ugali are similar to what the Ewes in Ghana call akpene. They are totally different from fufu. Compare this to the fufu video I posted earlier.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYo4uqJvb1Y

mollytinrox: Sister Keri, forget all your figure and agility if you incorporate that into your diet.

#when it knocks you down, just get back up.

rhymz: Let's get something straight here: Fufu is not Ghanaian or has its origin in Ghana. I am Igbo and know that fufu inlike highlife is a cultural thing in my place, it has existed way before Ghana or Nigeria were known as countries, it is like somebody saying pounded yam is Ghanaian.
In Igbo land we don't even call it fufu, we call it Akpu japu, and we prepare it very differently from those varient I see ghanaians eat, ours is strictly done with cassava, aint no such thing as plantain or Yam fufu, strictly japu (cassava).
Ghanaians generally call sticky pastes made from tuber plants and plantain fufu which to me is very different from ours, so no need to make claims that have very obvious differences, the only thing they can make claim to is probably the name fufu, we actually do not call it fufu but Akpu and am sure calabar people have their own name for it as well. But to claim that we learnt it or stole the art from you guyz is to push the boundaries of ignorance, no Igbo man or easterner learnt the art of eating or making fufu or Akpu from any external source let alone from Ghana, that food is as cultural and customary to Igbos like the breaking of kolanuts for after prayers or to entertain visitors. So you all can stop arrogating it to yourselves.

londoner:


I'm not vex. but a tad annoyed.

Even if you look at the Ghanaian way of eating fufu.....it is totally different from our way, and their accompanying soups are also different.

They eat theirs in the same bowl as the soup....we dont.

We serve our fufu separately from the soup apart from some yorubas, who sometimes have theirs on the same plate as the pounded yam/eba etc.

Our fufu is totally difrerent both in texture and taste. i have had Ghana fufu in Ghana and Nigerian Akpu or fufu as a stable growing up........they are NOT the same.

GH Swagg:

My friend what you just described are two different foods. One is called fufu and the other akpu. You have tasted both and confirmed that they are not the same in terms of texture and taste. You made it clear that what Ghanaians call fufu doesn't taste and feel like akpu. So it makes sense that they have different names.

Now, since Nigerians don’t eat what Ghanaians call fufu and Ghanaians don’t eat what Nigerians call akpu, can we just agree that fufu is distinctively Ghanaian while akpu is Nigerian? I’ll love to one day try akpu

And what is posted on Wikipedia is about fufu not akpu LOL!

Crixina: i agree wit ur post,but nt wit the part that says calabar roast their fufu,we dnt,i can tel u da process frm when the cassava is brot frm the farm,till when it is served for lunch with hot 'afang or edikanikong soup'but let me spare u da details by just saying we stir the paste in a pot after mixing with a moderate quantity of water,kind of like stirring ur semovita.

Royal^Pearl^:
Lol when you think of Ghana the first thing that comes to mind is fufu. We are not saying that other Africans do not eat fufu (Go and ask everyone outside what they know about Ghana and the first food they will tell you is fufu) Jollof rice originated from the wolof ethnic group but a lot of African countries still eat it regularly just like fufu. I just googled akpu and it does not look at all like our fufu more like a food we call banku in Ghana so clearly there is a difference. There is no need to get over sensitive about this issue. Akpu originated from Nigeria and Fufu origiated from Ghana. If it makes you feel better for you to claim our fufu originated from Nigeria then feel whatever you need to feel to make yourselfs feel better it's no train smash. There are different types of Ghanaian fufu such as Plaintain, cocoyam etc while you said you guys only eat cassava not plaintain or cocoyam which already makes it different as we have variety.

Below the first two pics is your akpu [/b]and the [b]last two is what we call banku