Akara is a fritter made from cowpeas or black-eyed peas, originating among the Yoruba people of Nigeria, Benin and Togo, where it is sometimes called bean cake in English. It later spread through West African, Caribbean and Brazilian cuisines, and it is regarded as the ancestor of the Brazilian dish acaraje, carried to Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia, especially the city of Salvador, by enslaved Yoruba people. Versions of the dish are still eaten today across Nigeria, Benin and Togo alongside its Brazilian descendant.
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that originated in Yorubaland, from the Yoruba ethnic group inhabiting parts of Nigeria, Benin and Togo
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