West Africa encompasses 17 countries, including Nigeria, Ghana, the Gambia, Senegal, Chad and Mali, but "chefs resist defining their food according to national boundaries", as the region's ...

Writers, chefs and restaurateurs with familial ties to countries such as Nigeria, Senegal and Ivory Coast are cooking or harnessing through recipes the food of their lineage. This West African ...

Still, the WFP report says food insecurity will next year touch nearly one in ten people in West and Central Africa that the World Bank estimates is home to over half a billion people. Margot van ...