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Nigeria

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    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 >>

  • Books

    March 28, 2012

    Spring Guide 2012: Granta Eyes the African Short Story

    Continental rift

  • Dining

    March 21, 2012

    Kaia: Please Boer Me

    Happily, New York gets some more South African food

  • Voice Choices

    March 21, 2012

    Nneka

    Happily, New York gets some more South African food

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    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 >>

  • Dining

    July 6, 2011

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

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

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 22, 2010

    Jay-Z+Alicia Keys+Janelle Monae+Sade

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2010

    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.

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2010

    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

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2010

    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

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    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

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2010

    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.

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    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.

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2010

    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

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2010

    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

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    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.

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2010

    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

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    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 >>

  • Dining

    May 4, 2010

    Set Sail for Maima's Pepper Coast

    Munching shrimp heads at New  York's only Liberian restaurant

  • Voice Choices

    September 22, 2009

    'Lagos Disco Inferno'

    Munching shrimp heads at New  York's only Liberian restaurant

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2009

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 24, 2009

    Oumou Sangare+Les Nubians+Asa

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 27, 2009

    Earl Greyhound+Simi+SwEEtie

    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 >>

  • Art

    October 1, 2008

    The Unforbidden City: 'Street Art, Street Life'

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

  • Voice Choices

    July 2, 2008

    OUT OF AFRICA

    Is Damon Albarn the new Peter Gabriel?

  • Music

    May 13, 2008

    Black Stars: Ghana's Hiplife Generation

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

  • Voice Choices

    February 19, 2008

    THE POWER OF WUN

    Afro rhythms heat up the BK

  • Art

    December 25, 2007

    My Hyena

    Photographer Pieter Hugo captures a strange, roving menagerie

  • Books

    April 3, 2007

    Map of the Word

    New translations battle "language imperialism"

  • Film

    April 18, 2006

    New York African Film Festival

    New translations battle "language imperialism"

  • Art

    March 14, 2006

    A Cacophonous Affair

    From the austerely documentary to the resolutely fabulist

  • Dance

    June 22, 2004

    Dance

    From the austerely documentary to the resolutely fabulist

  • NYC Life

    December 30, 2003

    The Great Race

    A lesson from post-apartheid South Africa

  • Columns

    August 5, 2003

    Horoscope

    A lesson from post-apartheid South Africa

  • Books

    February 18, 2003

    Divine Intervention

    Exile on Poverty Street

  • News

    February 4, 2003

    Anatomy 101

    Exile on Poverty Street

  • NYC Life

    January 28, 2003

    Listings

    Exile on Poverty Street

  • NYC Life

    January 21, 2003

    Listings

    Exile on Poverty Street

  • NYC Life

    January 14, 2003

    Listings

    Exile on Poverty Street

  • NYC Life

    January 7, 2003

    Listings

    Exile on Poverty Street

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