katogo

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English[edit]

WOTD – 9 June 2020

Etymology[edit]

A plate of katogo.

Borrowed from Bantu katogo (“casserole, pot; stew”);[1] while one author suggests the word is derived from Luganda,[2] another has been suggested it is not possible to identify the specific Bantu language as the word is found in several of them.[3]

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Noun[edit]

katogo (uncountable)

  1. (Uganda) A traditional breakfast dish consisting of a sauce containing legumes and offal to which a staple such as cassava or matoke (“mashed boiled bananas or plantains”) is added, all cooked in the same pot.
    • 1938, Primitive Man: Quarterly Bulletin of the Catholic Anthropological Conference, Washington, D.C.: Catholic Anthropological Conference, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28:
      Katogo is a dish made of bananas and beans mashed together.
    • 1959 December, D[errick] B. Jelliffe, R. F. A. Dean, “Protein-calorie Malnutrition in Early Childhood: (Practical Notes)”, in The Journal of Tropical Pediatrics and African Child Health, volume 5, number 3, London: Amberley House, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 99:
      For the child's third (and preferably fourth) meal, the D.S.M. can be mixed into katogo or mugoyo (beans cooked with plantain or sweet potato respectively), or into maize porridge (bwuji), or into mashed pawpaw, or into any cold food that is left over.
    • 1980, Christine Obbo, African Women: Their Struggle for Economic Independence (Women in the Third World series), London: Zed Press, →ISBN, page 135:
      Cassava mixed with beans (katogo or nyoyo) cost the same but plain cassava with salt cost as little as one shilling a plate.
    • 1995, Joseph J. Kagimu, “Stone Roof on Grass Walls”, in Tired! (Poets of Africa; 13), Kampala, Uganda: Kamenyero Publishing, →OCLC; republished Nairobi, Kenya, Kampala, Uganda: East African Educational Publishers, 2000, →ISBN, page 19, column 2:
      We have matooke and chicken, / Potatoes with smoked fish / Mingled into groundnuts sauce, / Cassava and beans mingled together … / Katogo.
    • 2000 June 9, The Monitor, Kampala, Uganda: Monitor Publications, →OCLC; quoted in Eric Masinde Aseka, Transformational Leadership in East Africa: Politics, Ideology, and Community, Kampala, Uganda: Fountain Publishers, 2005, →ISBN, page 372:
      Surely, a country cannot be run Katogo (mixed grill) style.
    • 2006, Pecos Kutesa, Uganda’s Revolution, 1979–1986: How I Saw It, Kampala, Uganda: Fountain Publishers, →ISBN, page 222:
      Katogo is that meal, a Ugandan delicacy, prepared from a mixture of foodstuffs like matooke, cassava, beans, greens, meat etc.
    • 2009, Patricia Haward, Looking Back: Personal Memories of Uganda's Troubled Past, 1970–2000, Kampala, Uganda: Fountain Publishers, →ISBN, page 144:
      Shortly after the two boys had come, Maria, Hanja's wife, brought in a Katogo of peas, Irish potatoes and pumpkins.
    • 2017, William Wagaba, “How Do People in Uganda have Breakfast?”, in Jahrbuch für Kulinaristik: The German Journal of Food Studies and Hospitality, volume 1, Munich, Bavaria: Iudicium Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, chapter 3 (Einstieg in die transnationale Früstücksforschung – Starting Research into Breakfast: English Summaries of 13 Regional Studies in Kulinaristik des Früstücks. Breakfast across Cultures. (2018)), page 394:
      In the Ugandan context the most popular tradition[al] breakfast meal is Katogo. [...] Katogo refers to a mixture of food items cooked together and is considered to be a widely popular morning meal in Uganda. There are many types and versions of Katogo, in rural as well as urban areas, whereby the original version was composed of matooke (a type of bananas) and beans, considered to be a meal for poor people.
    • 2018 July 29, A. Kadumukasa Kironde II, “Get to know what katogo is”, in Sunday Monitor‎[1], Kampala, Uganda: Monitor Publications, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 July 2018:
      It is a safe bet that if there is one common dish that is universal to Uganda, it would be katogo. [...] The word katogo literally means a 'mélange' or mixture of ingredients with one absolute must have; matooke. The process of cooking is done in the manner of braising in other words a combination of stewing and pot roasting. While no one has an exact chronology as to when Ugandans started cooking katogo, what is not in doubt is that as long as matooke has been around so has katogo.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Lucy M. Long, editor (2015), “Uganda”, in Ethnic American Food Today: A Cultural Encyclopedia, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 648, column 2: “Katogo means "casserole," but also "stew," as the starchy staple is cooked in the same pot as the sauce, which is made with either meat or vegetables only.”
  2. ^ William Wagaba (2017) “How Do People in Uganda have Breakfast?”, in Jahrbuch für Kulinaristik: The German Journal of Food Studies and Hospitality, volume 1, Munich, Bavaria: Iudicium Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, chapter 3 (Einstieg in die transnationale Früstücksforschung – Starting Research into Breakfast: English Summaries of 13 Regional Studies in Kulinaristik des Früstücks. Breakfast across Cultures. (2018)), page 394, column 1: “The word Katogo comes from Luganda, one of the most domineering local Ugandan languages.”
  3. ^ Bebwa Isingoma (2016) “Lexical Borrowings and Calques in Ugandan English”, in Christiane Meierkord, Bebwa Isingoma, and Saudah Namyalo, editors, Ugandan English: Its Sociolinguistics, Structure and Uses in a Globalising Post-protectorate (Varieties of English around the World; G59), Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Pa.: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →DOI, →ISBN, page 155:
    katogo [...] Bantu [...] mixture of bananas and offal or beans, or both [...] I have used the label Bantu to show that the borrowing is from the many Ugandan Bantu languages. [...] [I]n many cases it is not clear which language provided the borrowing, since the borrowed words are found in many of the mutually intelligible Ugandan Bantu languages.

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