It’s hard to imagine street food in Botswana without mangwinya, or fat cakes. At Mabogo Dinku, a semausu located in the Kgatleng area in Kanye, opposite the BG bar, there was popular mangwinya affectionately known as “satellite”, alluding to the unusually flat shape of the fried bread. Usually, mangwinya are shaped in round balls.
In the mid to late 90s, in the village of Kanye, satellite dishes began mushrooming on roofs of most houses. Consequently, the word “satellite” became common in daily conversations. And an unknown person, perhaps even in mockery, named the best mangwinya to ever come out of Kanye.
Recently, my favourite Scotland team, Rangers, won the Scottish Premiership League for the first time in 10 years. I was acutely reminded of the ElSat satellite dish that enabled me to follow Paul Gascoigne-led Rangers in the late 90s, and, of course, while eating the delicious satellites.
Had you told me I was gonna live in Scotland one day I’d have laughed hard at you!
Maybe England, or US.
Scotland? where’s that?
#Rangers
Blessing Kgosi e tsile Kgasa 
ohhh my gosh – you wrote about BG and mabogo dinku and 😭😍 the many times i visited my relatives there, my cousin and I would always stop ha mabogo ha re romilwe ko BG – to buy the biggest fat cakes ever – they were only one pula and were always hot – which was ideal because we seem to visit during the cold months ❤️. this made my heart smile please dont stop writing about Botswana and the good old times.
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Thank you for stopping by. Indeed they were always hot -and a le monate jang. Beautiful childhood memories before we knew of matlakala a adulthood.😀
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