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kpekpele

Ga · Ga, Greater Accra · Food

A Homowo festival food of steamed, fermented corn meal served with palm-nut soup and smoked fish, traditionally sprinkled by the chief as an offering to the ancestors (Wikipedia, citing Osseo-Asare 2005 and the Encyclopedia of African Religion 2009). The description overlaps with kpokpoi.

Families prepared kpekpele for the Homowo celebration.

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