Nigeria

BLEATING HEARTS

Step into the world of Goat

Doctor Bello's Faith-Based Hoodoo Could Not Save Itself

POP OVER TO AFRICA

No need to get a plane ticket for this cultural experience

Reading Around: Annemarie Schwarzenbach's Impossible Journeys

Plus Noo Saro-Wiwa's Looking for Transwonderland

Q&A: Toyin Odutola on Drawing, Chinese Art, and What It Really Means to Have a Big Head

The portrait artist readies for a group show at the Studio Museum in Harlem

Destroyer+Sandro Perri

The Wall Street Journal Gets Africa Wrong

There's an interesting story in The Wall Street Journal about how we should get ready for a "Nigerian P.F. Chang's" because African food is the next big thing.There is only one largely unexplored continent left -- and it isn't Antarctica. With the exception of North African and Ethiopian cuisine, th ... More >>

Spring Guide 2012: Granta Eyes the African Short Story

Continental rift

Kaia: Please Boer Me

Happily, New York gets some more South African food

Nneka

Choice Eats 2012: A Few Snapshots

One innovation this year was the appearance of cafeteria trays, enabling one to amass several dishes at once, and then enjoy them. This guy told me, "I got mine on the Bowery for $2." The Fifth Annual Choice Eats tasting event was underway in one form or another from 5:30 to 9pm this evening. Ther ... More >>

Choice Eats 2012: Second Group of Participants Announced

The celebrated stuffed eggplant at Bay Ridge's Tanoreen, one of the festival participants The Village Voice has announced a second group of 17 restaurant, bakery, and chocolatier participants for its Choice Eats food festival. These join the 21 announced last Wednesday, bringing the total to 38 so ... More >>

Chopped Dollars And Screwed Emails: Songs Of The 419 Scams

​If you have an email address, you've probably received at least one poorly written message that promises you a cut of some large sum of money if you'll just be so kind as to help out with a quick loan that will pay some of that windfall's processing fees. These attempts at fraud—known a ... More >>

Live: Seun Kuti Heats Things Up At S.O.B.'s

​ Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 S.O.B.'s Wednesday, July 27 Better than: FELA! on Broadway. It's not hard to see why Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti—"Seun" (SHAY-oon) for short—was asked to star in the musical about his bandleader father that, after a stint on Broadway that ended this year, is now ... More >>

Chelsea's Banana Leaf Sails to the Island of Strange Starches

A new Sri Lankan restaurant slings hoppers, woodapples, and pittu

Our 10 Best West African Restaurants in NYC

​The peanut-dusted lamb kebabs called suya from northern Nigeria, available at Brooklyn's Buka In the late 80s, the typical Senegalese immigrant was a guy who furtively sold counterfeit watches and handbags on the street. He took his meals at temporary restaurants set up in SRO hotels rooms ... More >>

Jay-Z+Alicia Keys+Janelle Monae+Sade

Dish No. 73: Baklava at Güllüoglu

​​Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, Fork in the Road's handy list of some of our favorite dishes -- old standbys and new finds alike -- compiled daily. Today's pick: Baklava at Güllüoglu.

Dish No. 86: Fried Chicken with Two Sides at Soul Fixins

​ Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, Fork in the Road's handy list of some of our favorite dishes -- old standbys and new finds alike -- compiled daily. Today's pick: Fried chicken with two sides ($8.95) at Soul Fixins

Dish No. 87: Katsudon at Ennju

​ Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, Fork in the Road's handy list of some of our favorite dishes -- old standbys and new finds alike -- compiled daily. Today's pick: Katsudon with miso soup ($9) at Ennju

Dish #89: First Prize Pie's Peanut Butter Pretzel Pie

​ Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, Fork in the Road's handy list of some of our favorite dishes -- old standbys and new finds alike -- compiled daily. Today's Pick: Peanut butter pretzel pie ($6) from First Prize Pies

Dish No. 90: Spicy Miso Ramen at Ramen Setagaya

Spicy miso ramen​Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, Fork in the Road's handy list of some of our favorite dishes -- old standbys and new finds alike -- compiled daily. Today's Pick: Spicy miso ramen ($10.50) from Ramen Setagaya.

Dish #91: Porchetta's Roasted Carrots

​ While Porchetta is far from a vegetarian paradise, Sara Jenkins applies the same thoughtful care to her vegetable sides as she does to the lusty hunks of pork that are her tiny shop's main attraction.

Dish #92: Sausage and Egg Breakfast at La Bonbonniere

​ Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, Fork in the Road's handy list of some of our favorite dishes -- old standbys and new finds alike -- compiled daily. Today's pick: Sausage and Egg Breakfast ($9.40) at La Bonbonniere

Dish #93:The Terrine Board at the Breslin Bar and Dining Room

​ Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, Fork in the Road's handy list of some of our favorite dishes -- old standbys and new finds alike -- compiled daily. Today's pick: The Terrine Board ($42) at the Breslin Bar and Dining Room

Dish #95: The Beauty at Mile End

​ Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, Fork in the Road's handy list of some of our favorite dishes -- old standbys and new finds alike -- compiled daily. Today's pick: The Beauty ($11) from Mile End.

Dish #98: Nigerian Goat Stew From Baku

​ Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now: Fork in the Road's handy list of some of our favorite dishes--old standbys and new finds alike--compiled daily. Today's pick: Nigerian goat stew ($7) from Baku

Fwd: Excessive Emailing Is Bad For the Environment

​Apparently, it's time to reduce your Unsolicited Carbon Footprint -- spam emails release over 20 million tons of CO2 per year, approximately .3 grams per message, as this Woork Up infographic tells us. Though the exact science of the whole process isn't revealed, this is good validation again ... More >>

Buka Gets a Liquor License in Time for the Big Ghana-Uruguay Match

Chantal MartineauBuka gets booze.​ It may be positioning itself as "the most authentic Nigerian restaurant" in the city, or so say the business cards, but Buka in Clinton Hill actually has more of a Brooklyn bar feel. Instead of your usual African restaurant accoutrements -- masks, colorful p ... More >>

Buka Invites You to Sweat It Out Over Nigerian Pepper Soup

Some like it fiery.​On a sticky summer's day, the last thing you are likely to be craving is hot soup. But, like Indians with their tea, Africans will sip a steaming bowl, which causes the body to perspire and, eventually, cool down. At the newly opened West African restaurant Buka, on Fulton ... More >>

Set Sail for Maima's Pepper Coast

Munching shrimp heads at New  York's only Liberian restaurant

'Lagos Disco Inferno'

Interview: Femi Kuti on the Closing of His Nightclub The Shrine, Nigerian Corruption, and Obama

Dutifully carrying on his father Fela Kuti's outsized and outspoken legacy, afrobeat's first son Femi Kuti has not only spent the last decade-plus touring the world, releasing albums (including last year's fine Day By Day), and collecting Grammy nominations (for 2003's Fight To Win), he's also bee ... More >>

Oumou Sangare+Les Nubians+Asa

Earl Greyhound+Simi+SwEEtie

The Unforbidden City: 'Street Art, Street Life'

The Bronx Museum captures the urban vibe—just don't look for any graffiti art

OUT OF AFRICA

Is Damon Albarn the new Peter Gabriel?

Black Stars: Ghana's Hiplife Generation

Featuring Ghana's finest MCs, from Kwaku-T to Batman Samini

THE POWER OF WUN

Afro rhythms heat up the BK

My Hyena

Photographer Pieter Hugo captures a strange, roving menagerie

Map of the Word

New translations battle "language imperialism"

New York African Film Festival

A Cacophonous Affair

From the austerely documentary to the resolutely fabulist

Dance

The Great Race

A lesson from post-apartheid South Africa

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