Kwanga

The travelling foods are mostly boiled batatas (sweet potatoes), Kwanga, a hard and innutritious pudding-like preparation of cassava which the

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

They were heavily laden, for most of them had from ten to twenty Kwanga on their heads, and besides this burden -- they were mostly women -- several of them had babies slung on their backs.

The Pools of Silence 1907

It was, in fact, a crowd of natives; some thirty or forty, bearing loads of Kwanga (cassava cakes) to Yandjali.

The Pools of Silence 1907

The travelling foods are mostly boiled batatas (sweet potatoes), Kwanga, a hard and innutritious pudding-like preparation of cassava which the "Expedition" (p. 197) calls "Coongo, a bitter root, that requires four days 'boiling to deprive it of its pernicious quality;" this is probably the black or poisonous manioc.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

Kwanga representing France during Seedcamp 2010 in Silicon Valley

Le fil...the Blog 2010