doo

What does “doo” mean in Dagbani?

dawadawa tree locust tree Parkia biglobosa (Jacq.) R Br. ex Don The seeds are fermented and made into strong- smelling cakes sold to flavour food. The yellow powder inside the pods is eaten as a snack and boiled up into a sweet drink. The roots and empty seed pods are boiled into a liquid used to seal floors and walls. A weak solution of this is used for stomach medicine. The bark is burnt and mixed with earthworm casts and used to smooth away scars. the bark is also soaked and the water is rubbed on the skin for ‘bone

Also spelled Dagbanli — both spellings refer to the same Mabia (Gur) language spoken in northern Ghana.