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with a sudden hot, heavy weight in my stomach that I am well satisfied.
A white tourist once told my Uncle: “Africans can’t keep living in the past. If you want to develop you have to stop doing things like eating with your hands.
I sincerely doubt this man has ever sat down to a big bowl of fufu and light soup with his grandmother. Never felt the hot pepper burn his fingers and grinned as an old woman pushes the biggest piece of fish over to his side of the bowl.
There is a saying in Akan with multiple meanings:
“A man who eats with a spoon doesn’t know how the food burns the hand.”
