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A picture showing the different varieties of kola nut used in Dagbon. Black kola. (a) Buchholzia coriacea (b)Red kola -Garciana cola (c) White kola -Cola acuminate.
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This article explores social interaction in Dagbon society, and people engage in greeting and sharing drinks and kola. The paper provides an ethnographic description of the discourse around greetings, sharing drinks, and kola nuts, as well as the variation socio-cultural performatives that are produced by the participants.
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Context 1
... kola nut belongs to the Sterculiaceae plant family and has several varieties native to the tropical rainforests of Africa (Adebayo & Oladele, 2012, p. 887). The most common species in Ghana, as in many West African countries, is Cola nitida which has varieties such as the black kola (a), red kola (b), and white kola (c) known in Dagbani as ɡusabinli, ɡuʒie, and ɡupiɛlli, respectively, as shown in Figure 2. ...
Context 2
... kola nuts are the fruits of the kola plant. It is these fruits that people eat when matured and ripe, as illustrated in Figure 2. Generally, when people chew the kola nut, the liquid in the fruit is what they extract and swallowed, and later they spit out the fleshy remains in their mouths. ...
