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🇬🇭Ghana

Akara

Àkàrà

Peeled black-eyed beans ground with onion and pepper, whipped until airy and deep-fried in balls, eaten hot for breakfast with pap or bread.

🇹🇬Togo

Bean Fritters

Gawou

Crispy Togolese bean fritters made from skinned black-eyed peas blended with onion, chilli, and salt, then deep-fried into golden balls; a popular morning or afternoon market snack.

🇬🇭Ghana

Bofrot

Botokoin

Sweetened yeast dough dropped by the spoonful into hot oil and fried into round, chewy balls.

🇳🇪Niger

Dankuwa

A sweet and spicy Nigerien snack of roasted groundnuts, millet or maize, sugar, ginger, and cloves, pounded and shaped into small balls or bars; energy-dense and popular in the north.

🇳🇪Niger

Donkwa

Hausa peanut-and-corn snack ground and shaped into small, portable balls.

🇳🇪Niger

Guinean Grilled Corn

Maïs grillé

Corn on the cob grilled over charcoal and slathered with butter or mayonnaise; a popular street snack during the corn season; sold at roadside stalls.

🇳🇪Niger

Koura-Koura

Peanut snack sticks or rings made from oil-extracted peanut paste, spiced and fried; the Burkinabè name for kuli-kuli; a crunchy, protein-dense snack.

🇬🇭Ghana

Kuli Kuli

Groundnut paste with the oil pressed out, spiced and deep-fried into hard rings or sticks, eaten alone or crumbled over other food.

🇳🇪Niger

Masa

Waina

Fermented rice cakes from Niger, small and spherical with a crisp outer crust and a soft, spongy, slightly sour interior; made from rice batter, yeast, sugar, and salt, served with honey, miyan taushe, or suya.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Puff Puff

Balls of sweetened yeast batter dropped into hot oil by hand and fried until deep brown and hollow inside.