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posho

Etymology 1 a. (context colloquial English) posh n. A posh person. Etymology 2

n. (context East Africa English) A food product made of cornmeal.

Usage examples of "posho".

He remembered it as an Indian shop where safaris stocked up with wine and liquor, fresh vegetables and tinned goods, but it had been Africanized long ago and now the shelves were largely bare, only local produce sold, sacks of maize flour they called posho, melons over-ripe and crawling with flies, root vegetables I had never seen before.

All this we heard from Karanja as we sat by the fire eating a mess of posho and elephant meat.

A blackened tin of water was already boiling and Mtome was squatting beside the glowing oven of stones, kneading posho into a dough.