Iconic African Dishes & Their Countries of Origin
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Jollof Rice – 🇳🇬 Nigeria / 🇬🇭 Ghana / 🇸🇳 Senegal (West Africa)
- Spicy, tomato-based rice dish with meat or fish.
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Egusi Soup – 🇳🇬 Nigeria
- Thick melon seed soup, often served with pounded yam or fufu.
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Pounded Yam & Efo Riro – 🇳🇬 Nigeria
- Smooth yam mash served with rich spinach stew.
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Injera & Doro Wat – 🇪🇹 Ethiopia
- Spongy flatbread with spicy chicken stew.
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Bobotie – 🇿🇦 South Africa
- Spiced minced meat baked with an egg-based topping.
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Bunny Chow – 🇿🇦 South Africa
- Hollowed-out bread filled with curry.
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Fufu & Light Soup – 🇬🇭 Ghana
- Soft cassava dumpling served with light tomato-based soup.
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Ndolé – 🇨🇲 Cameroon
- Bitterleaf stew with peanuts, shrimp, and meat.
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Thieboudienne – 🇸🇳 Senegal
- Flavorful fish and rice dish cooked with vegetables.
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Koshari – 🇪🇬 Egypt
- Mix of lentils, rice, pasta, and tomato sauce.
- Couscous – 🇲🇦 Morocco / 🇩🇿 Algeria / 🇹🇳 Tunisia
- Steamed semolina grains served with meat and vegetables.
- Bissara – 🇲🇦 Morocco
- Thick fava bean soup, often eaten with bread.
- Kapenta with Sadza – 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
- Small dried fish served with cornmeal porridge.
- Matoke – 🇺🇬 Uganda
- Steamed green bananas mashed with peanuts and meat.
- Mafé – 🇲🇱 Mali / 🇸🇳 Senegal
- Peanut stew with beef or chicken.
- Chakalaka & Pap – 🇿🇦 South Africa
- Spicy vegetable relish served with maize porridge.
- Pilau – 🇰🇪 Kenya / 🇹🇿 Tanzania
- Spiced rice dish often cooked with meat.
- Nyama Choma & Ugali – 🇰🇪 Kenya
- Roasted meat served with maize porridge.
- Moambe Chicken – 🇨🇩 DR Congo
- Chicken cooked in palm butter sauce.
- Seswaa – 🇧🇼 Botswana
- Slow-cooked shredded beef or goat meat.
