Yam

Mayor, thank you for joining me this evening.

Is that the case that you are deliberately targeting concombers within the YAM market and that you are only targeting the places they live to demolish for the 24-hour market? Unfortunately, it appears that we've lost the mayor of Accra, but we will try to get him back on the line.

Let me go to Dominic Nitiwu.

He is the NPP MP for Bimbola and also former defense minister there.

Welcome, my brother.

How are you? I'm good, sir.

Is it the case that the Accra Metropolitan Assembly is deliberately targeting the Konkomba community within the YAM market and that you have only earmarked places that belong to them for demolition to make way for the 24-hour market?

No, my brother.

Now she's in the Triangle of Terror 'cause her name is Sky Blue.

Plus she got Yams too, yeah.

The cam's over low, but you know she's Sky Blue.

Sky Blue.

Yesterday was cloudy, but today is sky blue.

It's thick, though.

And then it's Sky Blue because she got Yams too, ooh, ooh.

Yay, yay, yay, yay, yay, yay.

Ejike, sixteen, folds Naira notes into bundles of five.

Yam dusts grey in the creases of his palms.

Four years enwaboi.

Four years sweeping, stacking, memorizing his master's prices, and never once allowed to close a sale alone.

Then he sees her fingers linger on the yam skin, counting kobo before she counts food.

He opens his hands.

Yam dust falls between his fingers.

Take them for one naira ten, he says.

Ejike, 16, folds Naira notes into bundles of five.

Yam dusts grey in the creases of his palms.

Four years Enwabwe.

Four years sweeping, stacking, memorizing his master's prices, and never once allowed to close a sale alone.

Then he sees her fingers linger on the yam skin, counting kobo before she counts food.

He opens his hands.

Yam dust falls between his fingers.

Take them for one naira ten, he says.

Cause he's got a YouTube channel as well.

Pounded Yam.

It's Jell-Off only post-match I reckon.

Pounded Yam.

I'm sure he has Jell-Off before the match.

No, not before the match.

He lived on a mountain in the north of the region and was sometimes referred to as the Lord of the North.

One story tells how this Baal defeated Yam, the sea deity.

Yam asked the supreme god El to crown him king.

El agreed but warned him that first of all he would have to defeat Baal.

Learning of the forthcoming battle, Baal equipped himself with magic weapons made by the gods and as a result he succeeded in killing Yam and scattering his remains.

Baal then proclaimed himself king, built a sumptuous dwelling place on Mount Saphon, and took control of several cities.

After this victory, Baal became so proud that he decided to challenge Mot, the god of death.

Is this like yams for Yoo-hoo?

[laughs]

Yeah, give me Beats by Yams.

[laughs]

A lot of foods being colored in.