page_title: Ugali
section_title: Names
hierarchical_section_title: Ugali / Names
caption_attribution_description: English: Ugali with beef and sauce, This photo has been taken by Mr.Chen Hualin in a bar inside the University of Dar es Salaam.
context_page_description: Ugali, also known as ugali pap, nsima and nshima, is a type of maize flour porridge made in Africa. It is also known as
  ngima, obusuma, obuchima, kimnyet, nshima, mieliepap, phutu, sadza, kwon, gauli, isitshwala and other names. Nsima is sometimes made from other flours, such as millet or sorghum flour, and is sometimes mixed with cassava flour. It is cooked in boiling water or milk until it reaches a stiff or firm dough-like consistency.
context_section_description: This dish is eaten widely across Africa, where it has different local names:
  Akamu – Igbo, Nigeria
  Bando - Soga, Uganda
  Bidia – DR Congo
  Bogobe/Phaletšhe – Botswana, South Africa
  Bugali – Burundi, DR Congo, Sudan, South Sudan Rwanda
  Buhobe – Lozi
  Buru – Kenya, Luo
  Busima-Bagisu, Uganda
  Chenge –  Kenya, Luo
  Chima – Mozambique
  Couscous de Cameroon – Cameroon
  Dona
  Fitah - Sudan, South Sudan, Congo
  Fufu - Sierra Leone
  Isitshwala – Botswana, Ndebele
  Kawunga - Ganda, Uganda
  Kimnyet – Kalenjin, Kenya
  Kuon - Kenya, Luo
  Kwen wunga - Alur, Uganda
  Lipalishi – Eswatini
  Mielie pap – Lesotho, South Africa
  Mogo –  Kenya, Luo
  Moteke – DR Congo
  Mutuku – South Africa
  Nfundi – Congo
  Ngima – Kamba, Kenya, Kikuyu
  Nkima – Kenya, Meru
  Nshima- DR Congo Kasai region
  Nsima – Malawi, Zambia
  Obokima – Kenya, Sudan Kisii
  Obusuma – Kenya, Nyole
  Ogi – Nigeria, Yoruba
  Oshifima – Namibia
  Pap – Namibia, South Africa
  Papa – Lesotho, South Africa
  Pate – Togo
  Phaletšhe – Botswana
  Phuthu – South Africa
  Posho – Uganda
  Poshto – Uganda
  Saab – Ghana, Kusasi
  Sadza – Shona and Kalanga, Zimbabwe and Botswana
  Sakora – Nigeria
  Sakoro – Ghana
  Sembe - Tanzania, slang
  Sembe –  Kenya, slang
  Shadza – Kalanga, Botswana
  Shima
  Shishima - Zambia
  Sima – Chewa, Tumbuka, and Ngoni
  Soor – Somalia, Zambia
  Tuozafi (or T.Z.) – Ghana
  Ubugali – Rwanda
  Ubwali – Bemba
  Ugali – Kenya,, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Yao, Swahili
  Um'ratha –  Ndebele
  Upswa – Mozambique
  Vbogobe – Sotho, Tswana
  Vhuswa – Venda
  Xima – Mozambique
caption: Ugali with beef and sauce
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