🍽️ 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.
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Signature dishes of Africa
| Country | Known for |
|---|---|
| Algeria | Couscous |
| Angola | Muamba de galinha |
| Benin | Pâte with sauce |
| Botswana | Seswaa |
| Burkina Faso | Riz gras |
| Burundi | Ibiharage |
| Cabo Verde | Cachupa |
| Cameroon | Ndolé |
| Central African Republic | Kanda ti nyama |
| Chad | Kissar |
| Comoros | Langouste à la vanille |
| Congo | Saka saka |
| Djibouti | Zigni |
| DRC | Poulet moambe |
| Egypt | Koshari |
| Equatorial Guinea | Malay-style curry |
| Eritrea | Injera firfir |
| Eswatini | Sishebo |
| Ethiopia | Injera with wat |
| Gabon | Poulet nyembwe |
| Gambia | Yassa |
| Ghana | Waakye |
| Guinea | Poulet yassa |
| Guinea-Bissau | Chapati d'arroz |
| Ivory Coast | Attiéké |
| Kenya | Nyama choma |
| Lesotho | Potjiekos |
| Liberia | Palm butter soup |
| Libya | Sharba libiya |
| Madagascar | Romazava |
| Malawi | Nsima |
| Mali | Thieboudienne bissap |
| Mauritania | Thieboudienne mauritanien |
| Mauritius | Dholl puri |
| Morocco | Tajine |
| Mozambique | Xima with matapa |
| Namibia | Oshifima |
| Niger | Djerma-style rice |
| Nigeria | Egusi soup |
| Rwanda | Isombe |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | Calulu |
| Senegal | Jollof rice |
| Seychelles | Ladob |
| Sierra Leone | Cassava leaf stew |
| Somalia | Sabaayad |
| South Africa | Bobotie |
| South Sudan | Kajaik |
| Sudan | Aseeda |
| Tanzania | Ugali with sukuma wiki |
| Togo | Fufu with groundnut soup |
| Tunisia | Chorba frik |
| 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.
- 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.