Since the mid-1800s, human activities have rapidly facilitated the spread of rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV), a pathogen that ...

"Jollof rice is a popular West African rice dish that was traditionally ... Should other people be eating this jollof rice, ...

The rice-eating Cote d’Ivoire, like some of its African peers, depends on rice imports, mainly parboiled, to meet its domestic demand. That Cote d’Ivoire is the fourth largest importer of ...

Like red beans and rice and gumbo- other West African dishes that exist as American ... when he was a kid because he didn’t like eating pepper (He wouldn’t divulge the recipe but my guess ...

"Jollof rice is the heart of Africa," said Patience Ogunbanjo ... Now, each year on Aug. 22, people celebrate the dish by either eating it or making it. There are several great places to ...

For lunch, he would eat fufu (balls of dough made from cassava) with vegetable soup. And for dinner, he would have jollof rice, a dish popular across West Africa prepared with rice, tomatoes ...

Mohamed Bazoum, the democratically elected president of Niger, said he is being kept isolated and forced to eat dry rice and pasta ... Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was ...

Josiah Mulama, a small-scale farmer, tells The Africa Report that the government will not sway him towards eating rice. “I have depended on maize my whole life, that is my culture. I don’t like rice, ...

Parboiled rice, also known as converted rice, is a partially precooked rice that has been common in Asian and African countries ... the husk of the rice before eating it. The process also improves ...

Even though this dish has many different variations and is fiercely contested in West African communities, most people here aren’t yet sure if they prefer Ghanaian jollof (jasmine rice and ...