How 'Kenkey' came to be known as Komi in Ga

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  • TOASO KENKEY 8 years ago

    KENKEY IS THE LEADING GHANAIAN FOOD ABROAD, A PARTY WITHOUT KENKEY IS MINUS PARTY.EVERYBODY LIKES IT, SOME BEG FOR AT PARTYS. KENKEY ALL THE WAY.

  • Concerned 8 years ago

    Town council=tankasi and Cornmill = komi.The Gas are just as bad as the ashantes

  • Freeman 8 years ago

    Stupid fool and good for nothing.

  • NII LARTEY 8 years ago

    Kenkey most likely is called Dorkunu by the Akans as a corruption of the words"Dor wu kunu"-to wit, love your husband. It is imaginable that when the Akans came to live among the Ga, it was incomprehensible to the Apem and Ko ...
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  • TOASO KENKEY 8 years ago

    KENKEY SELLERS ARE NOT REGARDED IN ACCRA BUT COME HERE (ABROAD)ASHANTS,EWES,KWAHUS, NAME ARE ALL KENKEY SELLERS HERE THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN THEIR SHOPS.

  • Man Accra 8 years ago

    Wow!! I just love Kenkey, just serve it with anything and i will eat, the fragrance kills me

  • Livewire 8 years ago

    So even kenkey was introdused by the white man right? or just the process of manufacturing a good kenkey

  • Aboagye 8 years ago

    reading comprehension is your problem. read the article again

  • John Ghanaba 8 years ago

    Just the process, macinery was introduced.

  • NTAWA NTAWA MOSHE 8 years ago

    English Comprehension was a subject you missed in school,right?

  • BJ 8 years ago

    so what is the origin of the name "KENKEY" then?

  • Joe Lartey 8 years ago

    There are lots of fementated corn dough food around the world ,one i Japan is called Kenkey,the whitemen who visited those regions tasted them,and when they come to Ghana ,they tasted Otinshi(Komi) which is similar to the ke ...
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  • $AINT GHFUO, BLACK EXCELLENCE! 8 years ago

    ALL THIS CARBO, OIL/CHOLESTEROL N MEAT IS WAT IS KILLING GPPL..

  • Jonathan Gadese 8 years ago

    The Dagme people namely, Gbugbla, Ningo, Ada, Kpone, Seh, n Klo still call this food OTIM. Gbugbla, Seh n Klo in this context refer to Prampram, Shai n Krobo people respectively.

  • RG ransom 8 years ago

    that's because the Dagmes still speak the original form of Ga. Ga thats spoken today in Accra is a diluted form. remember. it is being influenced by Twi, Portugues, Dutch, and English of course

  • RG ransom 8 years ago

    what food in the world doesn't contain carbo and oil? and who told you carbo is a bad thing? stupid illiterate pretending to be educated

  • Kootse 8 years ago

    Ma broda, I see that all the time; so many idiots walking around thinking they can dispense knowledge which they themselves seriously lack. It is obvious that this person doesn't even realise that there is a difference betwe ...
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  • ODOI YEMOH 8 years ago

    Even though l am a Ga, l have no idea about the history of our delicious meal. WoW! Thanks a million.

  • Florence Bruce 8 years ago

    Thank you Sir for Educating us. We appreciate you. May God bless you with good health, happiness and long life.

  • Neequaye 8 years ago

    Ada, and Krobo speak the oldest form of Ga. Ga those of us from Accra proper have been influenced by so many different outsiders it has made the language evolve. However, our Krobo and and Ada brothers have retain most of who ...
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  • opoo. 8 years ago

    I love kenkey but the most important thing is I've learned history today .

  • TKG 8 years ago

    Ghanawe should rethink it's editorial policy. Their content editor (if there is) often sleeps on the job. The description of picture 2 in this story says komi is often eaten with "shit". Whether this is a typo or not is not a ...
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  • yaa 8 years ago

    I thought same at first but looked again and saw the close parenthesis meant to be the "or" sound. See ")".

  • Charles Higgins 8 years ago

    I was wondering if anyone has noticed it.

  • Kwami US 8 years ago

    I can't laugh oh? I also thought likewise. Shit or shitor? Maybe both. If you eat komi with a lot of hot shitor you will surely shit

  • Bishop blay 8 years ago

    Very edifying.Thank u.

  • VUGA its a good food 8 years ago

    kenkey is a food that make human. become big and thicker its a natural food from maize. so we berg the government and the ministry of Agric.to assist farmers to produce more..

  • buju 8 years ago

    Farmers don't produce kenkey, my dear....lol. They only produce raw materials for making kenkey!

  • FRANKLIN 8 years ago

    Great education Sir, Kweeeeeeer GA Komi l3 - onaapo! Komi tuaso!

  • Eric Moore 8 years ago

    U said kenkey is usually served with shit.. Lolz can't stop laughing. Though I know u meant shito

  • SANJAY 8 years ago

    the person wrote the word shit) , he is given us the history of 'Komi " so he used ")" instead of "o"

  • Desiree' 8 years ago

    Kenkey cooked in plaster could lead to cancer

  • Joe 8 years ago

    I don't even know who's idea that is. Why wrap Kenkey in polythene bag to boil.....for what?

  • JoHN 8 years ago

    All you think about is KENKEY and how to improve it when white man is thinking about how to improve the internet,.Wake up guys we are falling back

  • Dr. O 8 years ago

    Point of correction,' Kenkey ' is covered with the dried husk of a corn plant and not the leaves of the corn plant. Writer the word in place of leaves is husk, husk, husk, husk ,thanks for the education though. In recent t ...
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  • KGi8 8 years ago

    This is insightful. Ewes call it kokoe but largely 'tim' which is close to the Ga word

  • Junior 8 years ago

    Pls Kenkey is not served with *shit*.....

  • Kanawu 8 years ago

    Kenkey is served with pepper and fish and shito (not shit) as indicated in one of the pictures to the story. For God's sake we do not eat shit in Ghana please.

  • Kwami US 8 years ago

    Ewes in Togo and Benin call it kon/con. By the way which people call it dorkunu and kenkey and why?

  • cocaine wagon. 8 years ago

    Please correct this typo before it is entered in world records, for God's sake. Shito not shit as indicated under one of the pictures please.

  • OSEI KWADWO 8 years ago

    The word "KOMI" comes not from "CORN MILL" but from "CORN MEAL".
    Thus, MEAL made from CORN.