A Cameroonian soup consisting of stewed nuts, spinach or other bitter leaves, and fish or beef. Jende imagines that his mother, Ma Jonga, would have prepared such a dish during his first Christmas away from Limbe.
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Chapter 37
...Jonga who would have prepared a meal of chicken stew with yams, a side of ndolé, plantains, and nyama ngowa.
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