Hi I enjoy the video with my wife. I heard my father in law speak about a food Conki made from maïze . I eat a food called in The Dutch Carribean island Funchi. You eat it with soup, stews, fish stew, goat meat stew etc. Some older people mix the maïze with coconut and nuts and called it conkey. My in laws had at home a lot of bananatrees and use the leaves to roll in maize food. My wife make in december a kind of food like this with maïze and roll it in bananaleaves. Also they had Kalabas trees at home and use it to drink out of it or to measure Rice and maïze .. My father in law know forsure that his family from motherside are from Ghana and transported to be slaves in The Carribeans . So many customs are still there❣❣
Yes definitely Brother Amos. My mother's family is from the South Carolina Sea Islands, the Gullah people. I just commented above that my great grandmother use to do the hair of my cousins in the same style as Mary's. Sectioned and wrapped in black cotton thread. Of course the stews and foods are also very similar. Where the ingredients used to prepare these traditional dishes wasn't available, we substitued with foods that we had. We were also wise enough to bring other foods with us on the Middle Passage by hiding seeds in our hair. We are a very resourceful people!
@@GeeBee212 Thank you for your comment. We are all connected...Yes you are right our ancestors used other ingrediënt when the original ingredients werd not available. The stew is everywhere where our ancestors arrived. We are descendants of the middel passage people. We survived and we still carry on some cultural aspect of out ancestors. The hair dress type you mentioned is known and done by My mother in law too. Even my wife did it on her own a few times. 🙏🏾🙏🏾Also this hairstyle survived in the Carribbean , America and Latin America..
@@NanaKNOwusu Yes I noticed that too. Absolutely not a coincidence. Words from our languages stayed with us as well. The Gullah words cootah (turtle), bukrah (European), swunguh (proud), benne (seasame seed), gumbo, okra etc... were all West African in origin.
@@GeeBee212 Not a coincidence. We use in The Dutch Carribean tge word guambo or guajambo for okra My motherin law use the word benne too for sesame.. We are family, separated by the ocean and for 400 years❣❣
I had both on my first trip to Ghana whichwas back in 1998. although my tastebuds were just getting acclaimated to Ghanain cuisine, I was able to discern the difference between the Fante and GA kenkey and for me it's more about the flavor of the stew that accompanies it. On another note, my Gullah great-grandmother in South Carolina use to do Mary's (green dress?) hair style on my cousins. She wrapped the sections with black cotton thread. It is amazing how many tradtions we carried with us throughout the diaspora.
Wow, Ghana is blessed, variety of traditional foods.I cannot wait to visit Ghana one day because Jasmine make me wanna vist. Food in Ghana 🇬🇭 looks delicious.❤
The Kenkey woman was nervous that's why she is scratching her hair and body. This made me laugh🤣. I am impressed by how she is steering the amount of corn dough in the pot. The fante Kenkey looks very tasty.
In Jamaica, we have a dish we called turned-cornmeal. During slavery, people didn't have the time to prepare food like the way they did back in Africa, so they short cut a lot of things, just to survive. They were busy working on the plantations to make others rich.
Ama please when you film in our villages since our mothers and sisters are not use to camera please advice them to dress tight so they won't expose their nakedness thank you.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE your channel!!! It is unlike anything else on RU-vid!!! Keep up the great ambassadorship for Ghana. I have never been but have added it to my trip list because of you. Well done 💓
This video got in me in tears as it brings back my childhood memories living in around Agona Kwanyako, Agona Nyakrom Zongo to be specific with my grandmother when my parents were in the states. 🤦♂️ so happy to see my Agona people on your channel, next time please pass by Agona Nyakrom and video how to make Palm Kernel Oil. May Allah bless their hustle… can’t wait to get back home to eat real authentic kenkey, and of course Ga kenkey ain’t got nothing on Fanti Kenkey
@ Jasmine hi Chica,.. Wow the ladies are very very hard worker's the work they put in to take care of family is amazing blessed them💖 Thank you for sharing much blessings love from 🇺🇸 New Jersey,..
The Kenkey looks delicious. 😋 A lot of time and energy goes into making it for sure. I look forward to visiting Ghana. Thank you for bringing us out to the village to show us the process. Great video!!!🤗
Ahh Jasmine, I missed watching some as I had been unwell, getting my fix now and enjoyed this very much. Takes me back to my boarding school days in Nigeria, in an area in the a village and watching and learning the same way at weekends making Pap, Akara and Moi moi for selling. Hard working women that have a clear process that works every time and tastes yummy 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾🥰 Side note though, I want that yellow cover you are wearing, bought or made?? I’m jealous 😂😂😂
The process of making kenkey could be the same with the only differentiating factor being the wrap and the salt.In the Ga kenkey salt is added and of course corn husk is used..Any kenkey depends on who is making it.The best Ga kenkey is from WEIJA in Accra.The original maker is deceased but her kids picked up the trade.I don't know if they still make it.They use to hawk it in Accra by the omnibus station opposite glamour and opera cinema.The lady stays exactly by the location of bus Ten which use to be the Weija line bus.
This is awesome. Thank you. The ratio is different than ga Kenkey though. It’s like 2/3rd aflata? But please have the women dress well to reflect how esteemed they are. The camera shows everything so when filming is not when they can let it all hang out. Thanks with the great job.
You should try colors on the edges of the letters (lik black, to contrast white) when translating, instead of background shade. It might save you time compared to fitting the text in the shade-box. Basic function most/all softwares have, so I figured it's worth mentioning. Also, thanks for the heads up. I planned accordingly, and mid-meal lost some appetite in envy of how pathetic my meal was. Success! 😛
@@JasmineAmaa Oh, yeah, that's right! I never paid attention to the corn variety used, I just ate it :). Next time I visit, I will make it a point to get both, I am guessing I need to ask the kenkey seller if she has both, no? I learn something new every day, thanks!
Am sure you would get some in an African shop. It can be eaten with sauce but I love it as a smoothie. Blend it with water and sugar to the thickness you want then add milk or roasted peanuts
hi Jasmine how r u today well i hope i love ur videos and what u r doing with them to! hope Aisha well too ? things r going not to bad here in Australia still looking at December 1st before everybody can get back to something like normal Ashley Australia.
Hi Jasmine. Greetings from Melbourne, Australia. I have a question about Ghanaian languages. Apart from English, is Twi the main language you use in everyday life or Ga? Which is more commonly used in Ghana? Also, if you speak Twi can you understand Fante? Thanks!
Great video. A wonderful display of West African Aunty physical prowess. West African Aunty physical prowess is real. You mentioned Takoradi, where's Wode Maya!? LOL A question. Can you speak and/or understand Fante? I know Twi and Fante are different languages but is there some level of mutual intelligibility? (I know technically I asked 2 questions). LOL
Bus Ten is the WEIJA line.She just gets there early and in half an hour the kenkey is all sold out. The next best kenkey is at zongo Lane by a lady called Adukwe. The next best is at korle gonna by the old radiant way bus stop.The place is called kenkey factory.. Honestly, between the last two I couldn't say which one is the best.Have a good day
The lady you spoke to the making the dough looks so unkempt her hair and the way she was scratching her self please help her to be nice even though her job is hard I love 💘 her she is hard working 💪
Girl ! The best ' Fante dokun' is from YAMORANSA ! I Kid you not.I went to school at Cape coast and I can tell you that .But anyway things may have changed .There is a saying that ; "YAMORANSA DOKUN ,WODZI SOR TIRE". meaning..YAMORANSA kenkey is capable of sealing a leak in a tire.😅
