Meanings
- UgandauncountableA 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.
Katogo is a dish made of bananas and beans mashed together.
1938, Primitive Man: Quarterly Bulletin of the Catholic Anthropological Conference, Washington, D.C.: Catholic Anthropological Conference, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 285 more examples
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.
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 99Cassava mixed with beans (katogo or nyoyo) cost the same but plain cassava with salt cost as little as one shilling a plate.
1980, Christine Obbo, African Women: Their Struggle for Economic Independence (Women in the Third World series), London: Zed Press, →ISBN, page 135We have matooke and chicken, / Potatoes with smoked fish / Mingled into groundnuts sauce, / Cassava and beans mingled together … / Katogo.
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 2Surely, a country cannot be run Katogo (mixed grill) style.
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 372Katogo is that meal, a Ugandan delicacy, prepared from a mixture of foodstuffs like matooke, cassava, beans, greens, meat etc.
2006, Pecos Kutesa, Uganda’s Revolution, 1979–1986: How I Saw It, Kampala, Uganda: Fountain Publishers, →ISBN, page 222
Origin
Borrowed from Bantu katogo (“casserole, pot; stew”); while one author suggests the word is derived from Luganda, another has been suggested it is not possible to identify the specific Bantu language as the word is found in several of them.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Russian катого
- катого (katovo)traditional breakfast dish consisting of a sauce containing legumes and offal to which a staple is added
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