🍽️ African Food & Cuisine Quiz
Trace a dish back to the country it comes from.
A signature dish for each of the 54 countries in Africa — the ones a country is best known for abroad, listed below.
African Food & Cuisine Quiz at a glance
- Dishes, one per country
- 54
- Subregions covered
- 5
- Island nations among them
- 6
Food & Cuisine against real people, on the same questions — no account needed. New food & cuisine rooms start every 5 minutes, rotating through regions.
Signature dishes of Africa
| Country | Known for |
|---|---|
| Algeria | Chakhchoukha |
| Angola | Muamba de galinha |
| Benin | Amiwo |
| Botswana | Seswaa |
| Burkina Faso | Babenda |
| Burundi | Ibiharage |
| Cabo Verde | Cachupa |
| Cameroon | Ndolé |
| Central African Republic | Kanda ti nyama |
| Chad | Kissar |
| Comoros | Langouste à la vanille |
| Congo | Saka saka |
| Djibouti | Skoudehkaris |
| DRC | Poulet moambe |
| Egypt | Koshari |
| Equatorial Guinea | Pepesup |
| Eritrea | Hilbet |
| Eswatini | Sishebo |
| Ethiopia | Doro wat |
| Gabon | Poulet nyembwe |
| Gambia | Domoda |
| Ghana | Waakye |
| Guinea | Kansiyé |
| Guinea-Bissau | Cafriela |
| Ivory Coast | Attiéké |
| Kenya | Nyama choma |
| Lesotho | Papa and moroho |
| Liberia | Palm butter soup |
| Libya | Sharba libiya |
| Madagascar | Romazava |
| Malawi | Nsima |
| Mali | Tigadèguèna |
| Mauritania | Zrig |
| Mauritius | Dholl puri |
| Morocco | Pastilla |
| Mozambique | Xima with matapa |
| Namibia | Oshifima |
| Niger | Dambou |
| Nigeria | Egusi soup |
| Rwanda | Isombe |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | Calulu |
| Senegal | Thieboudienne |
| Seychelles | Ladob |
| Sierra Leone | Cassava leaf stew |
| Somalia | Sabaayad |
| South Africa | Bobotie |
| South Sudan | Kajaik |
| Sudan | Aseeda |
| Tanzania | Zanzibar pilau |
| Togo | Akoumé |
| Tunisia | Lablabi |
| Uganda | Luwombo |
| Zambia | Nshima |
| Zimbabwe | Sadza |
About the African Food & Cuisine quiz
- How many countries are in the Africa quiz?
- 54 — every country in Africa with the data this quiz needs. Questions are drawn fresh from that pool each round, so no two rounds repeat.
- Why are some dishes in Africa easy to confuse?
- Because neighbours share ingredients and history. Africa spans 5 subregions — Northern Africa, Middle Africa, Western Africa, Southern Africa and more. Within a subregion the near-misses cluster; across 54 countries the outliers are the ones with 6 island cuisines shaped by what grows there and what arrived by sea.
- How much of Africa does one dish have to stand for?
- A lot: 1,524,333,064 people live across these 54 countries, and each gets a single entry. The dish chosen is the one the country is best known for outside its own borders, not the one eaten most.
- How many dishes are in the Africa food quiz?
- 54, one per country. The table above is the full list, so it doubles as the answer key.
- Is one dish really enough to represent a country?
- No — every one of these countries has a far broader cuisine. The quiz uses the single dish most widely associated with each country internationally, which is what makes it guessable.