Ginger Coconut Rice: Nigerian Coconut Fried Rice with Prawns
Fragrant Nigerian-style coconut rice with fresh ginger, peppers and prawns, cooked in one pot with tinned coconut milk.
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Chicken Suya Skewers: Homemade Yaji Spice Without a Grill
Spicy Nigerian chicken suya made in an oven or air fryer, with a homemade yaji (suya spice) recipe using peanuts you can buy anywhere.
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Nigerian Egg Stew: Quick Tomato Egg Sauce for Yam, Plantain and Bread
Nigerian egg stew in 25 minutes: a fried tomato and pepper base with soft scrambled eggs. Perfect with boiled yam, plantain or bread.
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Folktale: The Chameleon and the Lizard
A Zulu folktale from South Africa about Unkulunkulu, two important messages, and why the slow chameleon arrived too late.
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Folktale: Anansi and the Pot of Wisdom
An Akan folktale from Ghana about Kwaku Anansi, a pot holding all the wisdom in the world, and the small boy who was wiser than his father.
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Folktale: Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky
An Efik and Ibibio folktale from south-eastern Nigeria about a friendship, a very big house, and how Sun and Moon ended up in the sky.
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Folktale: Why the Sky Is Far Away
An Edo (Bini) folktale from Nigeria about a time when the sky was close enough to eat, and the day people wasted one piece too many.
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Forgotten African Ingredients That Deserve a Comeback
Prekese, scent leaf, uda and bitter leaf gave our mothers’ cooking its soul. Here is how to bring them back into a modern kitchen abroad.
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How to Get Your Picky Child to Love African Food
Raising children abroad who would rather have nuggets than egusi? Practical, patient tips to help them enjoy the food of home.
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16 Everyday Things Every Nigerian Home Had
The ice-cream bowl that became a stew bowl, calendars as art, the omorogun and the polythene bag stash. A nostalgic tour of the Nigerian home.
