Welcome to the summary page for FabulousFusionFood's Africa recipes. This page provides links to all the Africa recipes presented on this site, with 2478 recipes in total.

These recipes, for the major part, originate in the Africa. Otherwise they are fusion recipes with major African influences.

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surface area. With 1.4 billion people as of 2021, it accounts for about 18% of the world's human population. Africa's population is the youngest amongst all the continents; the median age in 2012 was 19.7, when the worldwide median age was 30.4. Despite a wide range of natural resources, Africa is the least wealthy continent per capita and second-least wealthy by total wealth, ahead of Oceania. Scholars have attributed this to different factors including geography, climate, tribalism, colonialism, the Cold War, neocolonialism, lack of democracy, and corruption. Despite this low concentration of wealth, recent economic expansion and the large and young population make Africa an important economic market in the broader global context.

The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos. It contains 54 fully recognised sovereign states, eight cities and islands that are part of non-African states, and two de facto independent states with limited or no recognition. This count does not include Malta and Sicily, which are geologically part of the African continent. Algeria is Africa's largest country by area, and Nigeria is its largest by population. African nations cooperate through the establishment of the African Union, which is headquartered in Addis Ababa.

Africa is highly biodiverse; it is the continent with the largest number of megafauna species, as it was least affected by the extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna. However, Africa also is heavily affected by a wide range of environmental issues, including desertification, deforestation, water scarcity and pollution. These entrenched environmental concerns are expected to worsen as climate change impacts Africa. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has identified Africa as the continent most vulnerable to climate change.

The history of Africa is long, complex, and has often been under-appreciated by the global historical community. Africa, particularly Eastern Africa, is widely accepted as the place of origin of humans and the Hominidae clade (great apes). The earliest hominids and their ancestors have been dated to around 7 million years ago, including Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Australopithecus africanus, A. afarensis, Homo erectus, H. habilis and H. ergaster ߞ the earliest Homo sapiens (modern human) remains, found in Ethiopia, South Africa, and Morocco, date to circa 233,000, 259,000, and 300,000 years ago, respectively, and Homo sapiens is believed to have originated in Africa around 350,000–260,000 years ago. Africa is also considered by anthropologists to be the most genetically diverse continent as a result of being the longest inhabited.

Etymology: Afri was a Latin name used to refer to the inhabitants of then-known northern Africa to the west of the Nile river, and in its widest sense referred to all lands south of the Mediterranean (Ancient Libya). This name seems to have originally referred to a native Libyan tribe, an ancestor of modern Berbers; see Terence for discussion. The name had usually been connected with the Phoenician word ʿafar meaning 'dust', but a 1981 hypothesis has asserted that it stems from the Berber word ifri (plural ifran) meaning 'cave', in reference to cave dwellers. The same word may be found in the name of the Banu Ifran from Algeria and Tripolitania, a Berber tribe originally from Yafran (also known as Ifrane) in northwestern Libya, as well as the city of Ifrane in Morocco.

Under Roman rule, Carthage became the capital of the province it then named Africa Proconsularis, following its defeat of the Carthaginians in the Third Punic War in 146 BC, which also included the coastal part of modern Libya. The Latin suffix -ica can sometimes be used to denote a land (e.g., in Celtica from Celtae, as used by Julius Caesar). The later Muslim region of Ifriqiya, following its conquest of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire's Exarchatus Africae, also preserved a form of the name.

According to the Romans, Africa lies to the west of Egypt, while 'Asia' was used to refer to Anatolia and lands to the east. A definite line was drawn between the two continents by the geographer Ptolemy (85–165 CE), indicating Alexandria along the Prime Meridian and making the isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea the boundary between Asia and Africa. As Europeans came to understand the real extent of the continent, the idea of 'Africa' expanded with their knowledge.

Africa is sub-divided into the regions of North Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa and West Africa. North Africa also represents the southern part of the Mediterranean Region. The United Nations divides these regions as follows:

North Africa

Arms	Flag	Name of Territory	Capital	Name in Official Language(s)
		Algeria	Algiers	الجزائر (al-Jazāʾir)/Algérie
		Canary Islands (Spain)	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife	Canarias
		Pelagie Islands (Italy)	Lampedusa	Pelagie/Isole Pelagie/Ìsuli Pilaggî
		Ceuta (Spain)	—	Ceuta/Sebta/سَبْتَة (Sabtah)
		Egypt	Cairo	مِصر (Miṣr)
		Libya	Tripoli	ليبيا (Lībiyā)
		Madeira (Portugal)	Funchal	Madeira
		Melilla (Spain)	—	Melilla/Mlilt/مليلية
		Morocco	Rabat	المغرب (al-maḡrib)/ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ(lmeɣrib)/Maroc
		Sudan	Khartoum	Sudan/السودان (as-Sūdān)
		Tunisia	Tunis	تونس (Tūnis)/Tunest/Tunisie
		Western Sahara	El Aaiún	الصحراء الغربية (aṣ-Ṣaḥrā' al-Gharbiyyah) Taneẓroft Tutrimt/Sáhara Occidental

East Africa

Arms	Flag	Name of Territory	Capital	Name in Official Language(s)
		Burundi	Gitega	Uburundi/Burundi/Burundi
		Comoros	Moroni	Komori/Comores/جزر القمر (Juzur al-Qumur)
		Djibouti	Moro	Yibuuti/جيبوتي (Jībūtī)/Djibouti/Jabuuti
		Eritrea	Asmara	Eritrea
		Ethiopia	Addia Ababa	ኢትዮጵያ (Ītyōṗṗyā)/Itiyoophiyaa/ኢትዮጵያ/ Itoophiyaa/Itoobiya/ኢትዮጵያ
		Not formally occupied	Saint Pierre	Terres australes et antarctiques françaises
		Kenya	Nairobi	Kenya
		Madagascar	Antananarivo	Madagasikara/Madagascar
		Malawi	Lilongwe	Malaŵi/Malaŵi
		Mauritius	Port Louis	Mauritius/Maurice/Moris
		Mayotte (France)	Mamoudzou	Mayotte/Maore/Maiôty
		Mozambique	Maputo	Moçambique/Mozambiki/Msumbiji/Muzambhiki
		Réunion (France)	Saint Denis	La Réunion
		Rwanda	Kigali	Rwanda
		Seychelles	Victoria	Seychelles/Sesel
		Somalia	Mogadishu	𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖 (Soomaaliya) /الصومال (aṣ-Ṣūmāl)
		Somaliland	Hargeisa	Soomaaliland/صوماليلاند (Ṣūmālīlānd)
		Sudan	Juba	South Sudan
		Tanzania	Dodoma	Tanzania/Tanzania
		Uganda	Kampala	Uganda/Yuganda
		Zambia	Lusaka	Zambia
		Zimbabwe	Harare	Zimbabwe

Central Africa

Arms	Flag	Name of Territory	Capital	Name in Official Language(s)
		Angola	Luanda	Angola
		Cameroon	Yaoundé	Cameroun/Kamerun
		Central African Republic	Bangui	Ködörösêse tî Bêafrîka/République centrafricaine
		Chad	N'Djamena	تشاد (Tšād)/Tchad
		Republic of the Congo	Brazzaville	Congo/Kôngo/Kongó
		Democratic Republic of the Congo	Kinshasa	République démocratique du Congo
		Equatorial Guinea	Malabo	Guinea Ecuatorial/Guinée Équatoriale/Guiné Equatorial
		Gabon	Libreville	Gabon
		São Tomé and Príncipe	São Tomé	São Tomé e Príncipe

Southern Africa

Arms	Flag	Name of Territory	Capital	Name in Official Language(s)
		Botswana	Gabaronne	Botswana/Botswana
		eSwatini	Mbabane	eSwatini/Eswatini
		Lesotho	Maseru	Lesotho/Lesotho
		Namibia	Windhoek	Namibia
		South Africa	Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Pretoria	yaseNingizimu Afrika/yoMzantsi-Afrika/Suid-Afrika/Afrika-Borwa/ Aforika Borwa/Afrika Borwa/Afrika Dzonga/yeNingizimu Afrika/ Afurika Tshipembe/yeSewula Afrika

West Africa

Arms	Flag	Name of Territory	Capital	Name in Official Language(s)
		Benin	Porto-Novo	Bénin
		Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso
		Cape Verde	Praia	Cabo Verde/Kabu Verdi
		The Gambia	Banjul	The Gambia
		Ghana	Accra	Ghana
		Guinea	Conakry	Guinée
		Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	Guiné-Bissau
		Ivory Coast	Abidjan, Yamoussoukro	Côte d'Ivoire
		Liberia	Monrovia	Liberia
		Mali	Bamoko	Mali/Maali/مالي (Mālī)/𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Maali)/ ߡߊߟߌ (Mali)
		Mauritania	Nouakchott	موريتانيا (Mūrītānyā)
		Niger	Niamey	Niger
		Nigeria	Abuja	Nigeria
		Saint Helena (United Kingdom)	Jamestown	Saint Helena
		Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)	Jamestown	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
		Senegal	Dakar	Sénégal
		Sierra Leone	Freetown	Sierra Leone
		Togo	Lomé	Togo