Discovering Nigeria’s Delicious Eba

Description

Discover Eba for Kids

Discover Eba for kids with this colourful and educational My Iwe factsheet. Children can learn about one of Nigeria’s popular foods while exploring Nigerian culture, ingredients and traditional ways of eating.

Eba is a soft food made from garri, which comes from the cassava plant. Hot water is mixed with garri and stirred until it forms the smooth consistency known as Eba.

What Will Children Learn?

This Eba for Kids factsheet introduces children to how cassava becomes garri and how garri is used to make Eba.

Children can also discover some of the Nigerian soups commonly enjoyed with Eba, including egusi, okra, efo riro and ogbono soup.

The resource also introduces the idea of Nigerian “swallow” foods, including Eba, pounded yam, amala and fufu.

Nigerian Food and Culture

Food is an important part of Nigerian culture. Meals such as Eba can be enjoyed at home and shared with family and friends.

Learning about traditional foods gives children another way to discover Nigeria, its people and its culture.

This resource is ideal for children, parents, teachers, schools and home learning and can be used alongside other My Iwe resources exploring Nigeria and cultures around the world.

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