Ghanaians for generations relied on the use of mortars and pestles to prepare one of their indigenous, well-loved starchy food, fufu .

When my mother told me at the age of 16 that we were going from the UK to Ghana for the summer holidays, I had no reason to ...

There were no microwaves, no fast-food runs. Making the traditional dough-like dish fufu, for example, is laborious and involves pounding cooked yams or cassava into a paste with a mortar.

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