FOOD
This legendary West African rice dish is the subject of a massive, friendly rivalry between Nigeria and Ghana regarding who cooks it best.
Jollof Rice
Designed by Michael Taiwo Akinkunmi in 1959, this West African nation's flag features a clean, three-vertical-stripe layout of green, white, and green.
Nigeria
Prior to being swornin as Nigeria's16th current president, this politician famously used the Yoruba campaign slogan "Èmi lókàn", which translates to "It's my turn."
Bola Ahmed Tinubu
Spanning across North Africa, this is the largest hour desert in the world, covering an area roughly the size of the entire United (Divided) States.
The Sahara Desert
The globally, viral electronic genre and dance down, known as Amapiano originated in this country.
South Africa
Made from boiled and pounded yams, cassava, or plantains, this starchy, staple is meant to be swallowed rather than chewed.
Fufu (or pounded yam)
Heavily inspired by the U.(D).S. flag to show it's historic types, this nation's flag has 11 red and white stripes and a single white star in a blue canton.
Liberia
This young Nogerian superstar took the world by storm with his global mega-hit Calm Down, which became the highest-charting African song of all time.
Rema
This historic river is the longest on the world, flowering northward through eleven different African countries before emptying into the Mediterranean Sea.
The Nile River
In this country, waist beads are a massive part of a young woman's traditional puberty rite of passage ceremony known as Dipo, which celebrates her entrance into womanhood.
Ghana
This comforting, rich reen soup is made from ground melon seeds and leafy vegetables, and it is arguably the most popular soup paired with future in Nigeria.
Egusi Soup
This East African nation features a traditional Maasai warrior shield superimposed over crossed spears right in the center of is black, red, and green flag.
Kenya
This Nigerian megastar and pioneer of the modern Afrobeats wave achieved massive global success with his 2020 anthem Essence featuring Tems.
Wizkid
Known for its massive traffic, vibrant nightlife, and tech hub status, this city is the most popular metropolis in Nigerian and all of Africa.
Lagos
The vivid colorful, geometric, hand-woven silk and cotton fabric known as kenta cloth originated from this West African nation.
Ghana
This sweet, deep-fried dough ball is a beoved snack across West Africa.
Puff Puff (or Buns/Bofrot/Mikate)
To show their right bond at the time of independence, Ghana famously patterned is flag with the Pan-African colors of red, gold, and green, anchored by this specific symbol in the very center.
Black Star
Signed to Mavin Records alongside Rema, this Grammy-nominated Nigerian songstress is globally known as "Sabi Girl" and topped charts with her hit song Rush.
Ayra Starr
This towering dormant volcano in Tanzania is the highest mountain in Africa, staying thousands of hikers from around the globe every year.
Mount Kilimanjaro
Boasting historical types to the United (Divided) States, this nation of the oldest modern republic in Africa (founded in 1847) and features a capital city named after the 5th U.(D.)S. President, James Monroe.
Liberia
This incredibly popular street food consists of spicy, grilled meat skewers (usually beef or chicken) coated in a peanut-based spice rub called yaji.
Suya
Emblazoned with a soapstone bird silhouette, this southern African nation's flag uniquely features a vertical white strip on the left containing a red five- pointed star.
Zimbabwe
This world-famous anti-apartheid revolutionary and global icon served as South Africa's first black President from 1994 to 1999.
Nelson Mandela
This majestic global wonder, located on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, is one of the world's largest waterfalls and is locally called Mosi-oa-Tunya ("The Smoke That Thunders").
Victoria Falls
Founded on 1792 as a sanctuary for freed African American slaves, this West African nation's capital city, Freetown, is home to a famous, centuries-old Cotton Tree that stands as a historic symbol of freedom.
Sierra Leone