Nearly four in five people in Africa prepare their meals over open fires or traditional stoves, utilizing wood, charcoal and other polluting fuels, but moving towards clean cooking is hard when ...

In Africa, the daily act of cooking for millions of families has been a silent killer, claiming the lives of roughly 600 000 women and children every year.These deaths aren’t from diseases people ...

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In Lagos, Nigeria, where the hum of the city mingles with the aroma of freshly baked bread, Chef Juliet Aigbe, known affectionally as “Chef Juls,” slides a grain-free wedding cake into a large ...

The African Development Bank, the continent’s biggest multilateral lender, will allocate $2 billion to promote clean cooking in Africa over the next decade. The pledge amounts to 20% of the lender’s ...

Back in 2020, esteemed chef and James Beard-winning writer and cookbook author Alexander Smalls was deep in research about the foundations of African cooking and cuisine in preparation for an expo in ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Among the biologists, geneticists and historians who use food as a lens to study the African diaspora, rice is a particularly deep rabbit hole. So much remains unknown about how ...

A recently created African food safety authority is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2026. The Africa Food Safety Agency (AfFSA) will be part of the African Union (AU), tasked with ...