I only spent a few weeks in rural Kenya years ago but have always remembered how delicious the food was. Food is a great way to introduce people to a culture they haven’t experienced before, and I think Americans would definitely embrace more African cuisine!

Excellent video! This topic is so interesting and important. I love listening to the ideas and perspectives of these change-makers. Thank you for sharing this! 🙌✨

I've always wanted to try Jollaf Rice, Fufu, stews etc. So happy to see African food items are getting popularity across the world.

@itsmarinah

7 ай бұрын

Same- I know a few people from Nigeria and Ethiopia and they’re always talking about how great their food is, and I’m like… okay where’s the restaurant? Haha

@sladewilson377

Ай бұрын

@@itsmarinahas someone of African heritage, it shouldn’t. The food is dogshit. We can’t export another virus to this world. We just recently recovered from COVID.

There's a couple of more universal lessons here. First, grow and learn to eat Indigenous foods. The plants are already adapted to their Indigenous regions, would require less intervention from water and fertilizer and from pests and disease. Second, learn from the Indigenous people who have grown those plants how best to grow, prepare and preserve them. Third, facilitate Indigenous peoples earning potential from their Indigenous plants and animals. Another example of this is wild rice, cranberry, wild blueberry and Maple syrup cooperatives, and small businesses in the traditional lands of the Cree and Ojibway peoples of Northern Ontario and Quebec that are owned and operated by Indigenous people. Why import massive quantities of arsenic-laced white rice from far away when we have rice grown locally with less negative environmental impacts, tastes better, and is better for people? Admittedly, it's more expensive and harder to get, but if we looked for ways to bring down prices, I bet we would also put a much higher value on protecting wetlands.

my family is from Ghana so i grew up around African food but once i moved out it was hard to find something other than Ethiopian. I do wish the video would mention the countries more as oppose to just saying African. i think that is another reason people don't know African "stuff" in general. because its all just shoved in a giant ball of african-ness

@kwilson4125

5 ай бұрын

@thedarkangel613 Research what happened in India when they started accepting “help” from similar organizations. Those seeds that they provide people are usually genetically modified to be drought and insect resistant. Those seeds are not real seeds and they ruin the soil over time. Indians were protesting a few years ago about how it worked for several years but later the land became barren and unable to grow anything. Africa has some of the richest soil. Your family should be educated that a lot of these organizations coming from other countries will not help in the long run. They want to get the locals to trust them. I see that Bill Gates is affiliated with MyAgro. He is also affiliated with the organizations convincing many countries in Africa to take the new malaria vaccines still in testing stage-something never done before. He’s doing many things that some seem suspicious. Every country needs to slow down and make sure they’re not letting in the devil. Many countries have learned too late about signing over their mineral rights to the Chinese. The agriculture situation is no different. It might be a blessing that they’re not mentioning all the countries by name. They could become a target. And with limited supply of indigenous crops, if Americans make those foods “trendy”, they will decimate those crops. Sometimes all that seems beneficial is not. In American, the people who are descendants of the African slave trade, have spent hundreds of years trying to be accepted. Don’t fall into the same trap and believe that extensive amounts of school are the only way to success. That’s the case if everyone’s plan is to leave their country and never go back. The vast resources in Africa are the target of people all over the world. That’s where the true wealth is. Don’t let them tell you otherwise. Verifying and waiting are better than making a hasty decision.

If only the people in charge there were less evil.

African food is so good from what I have tried sadly I am limited by my food allergy so glad we can hopefully use food to help Africa and bring the food to other nations and change what people think of a huge continent with a wide range of food

the chef is filtering that knowledge and experience in america through the lense of his home country to formulate a new narrative about african cuisine

I have experiences with our neighbour from afrika was how senegalesse and gambian will swore and dying from our chillis cuisine, while Nigerian and congolesse could rivaled us in taking chilli heat. Cheers from Indonesia😜🤣🤣🤣. And our rivalry in coffee and chocolates, adding venezuelan and peruvians always resulting of swaps of products that i dont even know!!.

I have traveled around Africa a bit, I have had some amazing meals. African cuisine can be really good, especially when its mixed with European/Asian style. However many Africans, in every single country, does have food security issues, most Africans font eat African cuisine, they eat potatoes, rice, beans, corn, flour, etc.... Also during Colonialism agriculture EXPLODED in Africa. Then whenever European farmers were removed from Africa famine followed. That being said, Okra is one of my favorite foods to grow myself.

But i think it's still benifits west .. millet and cassava demands are high that's why west wants Africa to grow them .. what abt other traditional crops?

Says who?.

3:00 What?! The Yield is lower because of clima change?

@NeoShameMan

7 ай бұрын

Increased drought

“It creates jobs in Etiopia” Then proceeds to show literal child labor. Im sorry what?

@nurlindafsihotang49

7 ай бұрын

I'm sorry asia and afrika does not have your "standard". I'm guessing europe? What's wrong with children does CHORES!!

@weamibrahim2146

7 ай бұрын

Bro thinks he solved child exploitation by calling it chores.

@Mallchad

7 ай бұрын

@@nurlindafsihotang49West and some parts of far east Asia consider it unethical to make children work for long hours, at bear minimum they should have fair pay and should have a safe home and food without having to work for it. If you have to work for food and a home its basically slavery we're moving towards giving peopel food and water bear minimum without having to pay for it, potentially a home in future They can work if they want but it should be a *choice*, they shouldn't feel obligated. Calling it a "chore" does not make it any less child labour, it just means it's implied you aren't getting paid

6th

@weamibrahim2146

7 ай бұрын

Literally no one cares.

@c.f.3503

7 ай бұрын

@@weamibrahim2146 well, you obviously do