It is only during this month of the 25th specifically when some among us relish pap cooked from white maize and entrails/tripe/mala mogodu seshebo as African cuisine in spite of the fact that white maize is an import from Europe and that a slaughtered animal is skinned for meat before the innards. As a matter of fact, where I grew up, on such occasions, we children were given these as cast-aways to play house with.
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