UK-Based Obroni Market Man Rattles Flawless Twi, Ghanaians React

• A video of a foodstuff seller believed to be in Brixton in the UK speaking Twi has popped up online
• The young market man interacted and negotiated, speaking the widely spoken Ghanaian dialect
• Scores of Ghanaians thronged the comments section to drool over the profound moment

A Ghanaian living in the UK has shared an encounter with a Twi-speaking UK-based food vendor.

The video published by Vidash5509 on TikTok captured the young vendor busily trading using the Ghanaian dialect.

Twi, spoken by over nine million Ghanaians, is Ghana's most popular language. It is used in daily communication, business, and cultural traditions.

In the video, the vendor conversed with his Ghanaian customers, marketing his goods, which ranged from chicken, meat and yam.

It was fascinating to see him call the yam 'Pona', a variety of yam native to Africa and highly valued for its taste and texture among Ghanaians.

He referenced Ghanaian events like Onaapo, a viral song used by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to campaign for its candidate John Dramani Mahama in the presidential elections.

He also used terms like apuskeleke, an original Ghanaian term initially referring to the counterculture of young women who engage in relationships with older men for financial gain.

The term popularised through songs like Barima Sydney's Abuskeleke is sometimes used to describe young women who wear short, tight-fitting clothing and skimpy clothes that expose certain body parts as a way of enticing men.

As of the time of writing this report, the Twi-speaking obroni vendor's video had registered over a million hits on TikTok.

Brixton market seller mesmerised Ghanaians

YEN.com.gh gathered a few comments from netizens as they reacted to the video of the Obroni vendor speaking Twi in Brixton.

K A S ❄️ 🇬🇭 🇬🇧 said:

This guy is always making jokes 😂😂😂😂 to get the Ghanaians to buy

Queen Afya phiddy 💍💝💙💜👸 wrote:

me mpo I don't know the difference between pona and the other yams

Sister Afia Janet 134 remarked:

Mahamah onaapo 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

president Mahamah come see your fans 💖💖💖

bintNajibti shared:

eeeee my questions are who thought them twi and the business eeee. the world indeed is small

Nana Kofi mama,s last born noted:

Eii akoa wie yɛnhwɛ no yie oo na damrɛ wɔyɛ Ghana nii oo😂😂

LOVE 💕 BIRD 🐦🕊️ commented:

Please tag his account for us to follow him he is so fun to watch 🤣🤣🤣🥰🥰

Buju Banton speaks Twi in the US

Earlier, YEN.com.gh reported that Jamaican reggae music icon Buju Banton was spotted speaking Twi while preparing for his concert at the Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, on June 5.

Bigg Hommie Flee, a US-based Ghanaian music executive known for his viral cameos on hit songs like Kwesi Arthur's Grind Day, asked Buju Banton how he was doing in Twi, and the award-winning Reggae star replied, speaking the Ghanaian dialect to his utter amazement.

Buju's Ghanaian moment comes after his 2024 interview with DrinkChamps in which he established that his Maroon ancestry can be traced back to the Igbo people of Nigeria.

Source: YEN.com.gh