FOOD,CULTURE & PLACES-Yoruba

Yoruba

Yoruba This is a tribe in the west and southwest part of Nigeria, Benin, also Ghana and Togo. Christians, Muslims and even African traditional worshippers can be found in the Yoruba tribe. The Yoruba tribe main occupation is manual agriculture and fishing. When it comes to crops, they grow yam, corn, cassava, bananas, various vegetables, groundnut and millet. Their main export is cocoa. 

Livestock breeding is poorly developed due to the contamination of the tsetse fly and a lack of sufficient land for pastures. Yoruba food One of their most common food is the preparing of yams in a few ways: they can be boiled, fried separately or mixed with other vegetables. 

The Yorubas are famous for their "Iyan" (pounded yam) - a dish that can be served with a variety of soups. In addition to this, corn is also a widely spread product: corn grains are cooked with beans, fried, added to meat or bananas and could be used for cooking porridges.