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Kai, stop it

Acaraje ko, Avalanche ni

The Akara woman got just pour person hot groundnut oil.

Officialgarri:
Kai, stop it

Acaraje ko, Avalanche ni

The Akara woman got just pour person hot groundnut oil.

Why now?
You dey vex?

@ Wiseandtrue, you are very funny .

Acaraje is the Brazilian name for Akara. The English name for Akara is Bean Cake or Fried Bean Cake.

Slaves from Yorubaland, Dahomey and West Africa took Akara to Brazil. Brazilians today call Akara 'Acaraje'.


Cheers.

Redman44:
@ Wiseandtrue, you are very funny .

Acaraje is the Brazilian name for Akara. The English name for Akara is Bean Cake or Fried Bean Cake.

Slaves from Yorubaland, Dahomey and West Africa took Akara to Brazil. Brazilians today call Akara 'Acaraje'.


Cheers.

Okay

Chenzen what does your name mean anyways?

There is no English name for Akara. Akara is Akara.

Is there an English name for Sushi?

Or kebab?

Any English speaking person that can not say Akara should not eat it.

OP make you just bone that thing. Akara is beans cake. Simple and short

Mynd44:
There is no English name for Akara. Akara is Akara.

Is there an English name for Sushi?

Or kebab?

Any English speaking person that can not say Akara should not eat it.

The English name z..beancake!

Moreso op said akara can be eaten with rice sounds weird tho.

I think akara z best eaten with either pap or bread!

ahnie:
The English name z..beancake!

No. It isn't beancake or baked beans or anything.

Akara is Akara. What is it with people always trying to pander to harassment sef? Be proud in your "local" things

Mynd44:
No. It isn't beancake or baked beans or anything.

Akara is Akara. What is it with people always trying to pander to harassment sef? Be proud in your "local" things

Well said.
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ahnie:
Moreso op said akara can be eaten with rice sounds weird tho.

I think akara z best eaten with either pap or bread!

Akara is very versatile. My favourite one is Quaker oats and akara.

Wiseandtrue:
Hello foodies,
Akara is a dish made from peeled beans formed into a ball and then deep-fried in groundnut oil or palm oil

It is found in West Africa and Brazilian cuisines.

Àkàrà is a special delicacy in Nigeria we all love to eat.

Some eat it with bread, pap/custard, Eko/agidi, rice e.t.c

Though it is popularly called Àkàrà, some refers to it as fried bean cake and so on.

But here's the real English name.

The English name for Àkàrà is Acarajé

Now you know

This OP sef

Wiseandtrue:
Hello foodies,
Akara is a dish made from peeled beans formed into a ball and then deep-fried in groundnut oil or palm oil

It is found in West Africa and Brazilian cuisines.

Àkàrà is a special delicacy in Nigeria we all love to eat.

Some eat it with bread, pap/custard, Eko/agidi, rice e.t.c

Though it is popularly called Àkàrà, some refers to it as fried bean cake and so on.

But here's the real English name.

The English name for Àkàrà is Acarajé

Now you know

You're wrong @Wiseandtrue.
You have to do some corrections in
your original post.


Akara is a Yoruba word just like moin moin which when elongated is "moyin moyin" or "mo eyin" (it means: to stick to the teeth).

NOTE: Mo means to stick to something, while Eyin is the Yoruba word for teeth.


Now in the 1700s and majorly in the
1800s, more than 500,000
Yorubas from the Yoruba-speaking parts of Nigeria, Benin Republic, and Togo were taken as captives to Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad, Guyana (where Rihana's mum comes from) Brazil, etc.


The Yorubas from Ijesaland, Oyo,
Egbaland, Ketu kingdom, etc, took
Yoruba foods such as Akara to Bahia
Region in Brazil which has a very strong Yoruba cultural, religious, and linguistic presence from the plantation slavery era till today!

Herbert Macaulay's maternal grandfather (Bishop Samuel Ajayi-
Crowther) was also rescued with other captives from a Portuguese slave ship that was headed for
Brazil from Lagos island in 1821
by a British Navy ship and taken to
Freetown.


So Acaraje is the Yoruba-Brazilian spelling for Akara which is the
Yoruba-Nigerian spelling.

Akara Ijesa (Acaraje) is a very
popular delicacy in Brazil, Cuba (where Yoruba culture is also very strong and the Yorubanised-Cuban language is officially recognised in the land of Fidel Castro).

The Hausas however call
Akara... "Kosai."

Interestingly
Yorubas call the oven-baked cakes
"Akara Oyinbo" or the "white person's
Akara."

Hope this helps everyone reading
this.

All the best.