Asake appears on the Zoom screen, a puff of smoke rising behind him, his chunky dreads — often dyed gold and green — hidden under a black Ushanka that contrasts his plain white shirt. Asake’s music ...
Street food is popular in Nigerian cities. Most of the local food delicacies are sold by vendors whose livelihoods depend on informal subsistence activities such as local food production and street ...
Depending on how well your stomach leads you, you'll find bold, spicy, and smoky options that will delight your taste buds. Chop Life Chronicles: 10 Nigerian street foods you must try - or avoid If ...
Ever since he moved to St. Louis from Nigeria when he was a teenager, Ono Ikanone has wanted to share his culture with his adopted hometown. Now, he and his wife, Justice Johnson, are finally ...
Evi Aki will never forget her first visit to Nigeria at age 10. “My earliest memory is seeing all the suya carts lined up on the street; the smells, the smoke,” Aki, who grew up in Chicago and Atlanta ...
A judge in Italy on Monday ordered an Italian man to remain in jail as an investigation continues into the death of a Nigerian street vendor whose brutal beating at the hands of the suspect shocked ...
My friend Caroline, who is currently traveling throughout Nigeria, recently told me she learned to make akara in a cooking class in Lagos. Curious to try the common Nigerian street food, I searched ...
When you walk into Suya Suya, the place smells like onion and paprika charring on the grill; the guy behind the counter in the black “Su-ya Soon” tee mops strips of beef with a slurry of spices. If ...
Hope, once left to starve on the streets of Nigeria for being deemed a “witch child,” has built a new life after being rescued, recently graduating from primary school and dreaming of becoming an ...