@o_layoola Also please see that you’re more similar to an Edo or Delta or Bayelsa or Igbo or Hausa person of today than to someone from Ife or Oyo like 200 years ago. You’d have more similar palates, since it’s food we’re talking about.
@o_layoola Nothing about the origin is being erased though. ‘Egusi’ has Yoruba etymology,
you know it, I know it, and it’s not a secret.
But I won’t hold it against someone that doesn’t is what I’m saying.
Educate and keep it pushing, why is anybody arguing?
@o_layoola Is it so wrong that the etymology is confused? The average person is not a linguist.
you don’t know the etymologies of all the English words you use do you?
@o_layoola But now, someone growing up in Owerri for example now would’ve been eating Egusi all their lives.
None of it would’ve come from the South-west. It has been ‘Egusi’ all their lives.
@o_layoola Locust beans is in Northern Nigerian cuisine as Dawadawa. It’s called that across the middle belt too, Kogi, Benue; and in Igbo land as Ogiri-okpei (idk if I spelt that correctly)
Just that (I think) it’s typically used grounded