In a bid to keep our night guards awake with some sort of productive activity, we bought an oil press and a big bag of peanuts. You put peanuts in a 2-litre bottle on top of the press, turn the crank, and out comes oil and “press cake,” which is the peanut solids. If you then smash up the press cake it becomes nsinjiro, which people here mix into porridge for breakfast.

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