Ga Kenkey

 

I am a staple dish

Prepared from a sour dough dumpling

I come already cooked in Jacket

You can call me Otim borga in the market.

My name is Kenkey

Also known as Kormi

Also known as Otim

Also known as Dokpetey!

These are my names and AKA's within the Ga communities

In fact, they are my faithful patrons

In the Akan communities, they call me Dorkonoo.

With many names given to me in other W. African countries

I know you do enjoy me as well

Let me know how I'm called in your local language.

My stock serves as a tasty corn wine at my wake

People do enjoy me with soups and stew

Especially tomato sauce

Me I do not know their source

But my best companion is Kpakpo Shitor and Salmon

All others, I will later summon.

Once eaten,

Be prepared to chug in a gallon of water every hour

No big deal, just to release my inner power

Many people complain of my high carbo. Content

Little did they know, in that lies my energy potent.

Not to talk of my high roughage presence in each ball

A good companion when nature calls.

To the manual worker, I'm a trustworthy companion

Providing them with the needed energy all day long

An economic benefit to their pockets

Upon all these good deeds of mine

I'm yet to receive my peace of mind

I am not seen in many homes

To them, I'm too local and lone

But if they care to know!

I am an international delicacy

Where I'm enjoyed without conditions

To the Jamaicans, they call me Dorkunoo or tie-a-leaf

Aaah! This people paa

Tie what leaf?

But to them I give much relief.

To the Trinidad's, they call me Konkee

How I wish I'm known among the Yankees.

My own Ghana people I need to re-orient

Before they throw me away ball by ball out of the continent.

So anytime you look at me 

With that local eyes of yours!

Just bear in mind 

That you are looking at a ball of local Kenkey

With an international reputation.