Chicha is made from a masticated blend of boiled maize (or yucca root) and human saliva.

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Elsewhere, "Adigbedoto" by Gnonnas Pedro glides on reverb-sozzled guitars that seem to owe as much to the Peruvian pop-rock style known as chicha as it does to any Beninese tradition.

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