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Okele, also known as "swallows" in pidgin Nigeria English, is a Yoruba food category for various starchy foods eaten with soups.^[1] Ingredients used to make okele include yam, fermented cassava, cassava granules with hot water, plantain, wheat flour, yam flour and cocoyam.^[2] Okele in Yoruba cuisine includes iyan (pounded yam), eba, fufu, amala, lafun, semo and pupuru.^[3][4]

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