gonja

See also: Gonja

English

Noun

gonja (countable and uncountable, plural gonja)

1. (Uganda) The plantain, especially when served fried.
   • 2011, Twesigye Jackson Kaguri, Susan Urbanek Linville, A School for My Village: A Promise to the Orphans of Nyaka:

     “How much for the gonja?” I asked. “Three for a thousand shillings.” “Too much.” “Three gonja for seven hundred shillings,” a shorter boy in a brown shirt said. “I will take three.” I purchased gonja, water, and two muchomo.

   • 2018 May 2, Charles Onyango-Obbo, “Uganda’s roads, villages, and the sound of silence”, in Daily Monitor‎^[1]:

     You are, however, more likely to find the roasted chicken and gonja on the left side, the presumption being that you missed these in the city. In that way, the prevalence of roast chicken and gonja on the left side on the outbound journey is also a cultural comment on the state of cooking in the middle class urban kitchen.