Also 8 canky. [West African; nkankye in Ashantee, kankyew in Fantee.] Native African bread made from maize-flour.
1735. S. Atkins, Voy. Guinea, 90. Salary sufficient to buy Canky, Palm-oil, and a little Fish, to keep them from starving.
1863. R. F. Burton, W. Africa, II. ix. 144. Kankie is native bread; the flour … must be manipulated till it becomes snowy white; after various complicated operations … it is boiled or roasted and packed in plantain leaves.
1887. Moloney, Forestry W. Afr., 448. On the Gold Coast the natives … make it into a kind of bread resembling the kankie. Ibid., 451. Converted by the Fantes into kankie-cakes.
