At my Nigerian boarding school, we had a tradition of School Mothers and School Daughters – a type of buddy system if you like, where older girls (in the fourth and fifth form) looked after new arrivals to the school. My School Daughter, Natasha, and I have remained in touch, thirty-odd years on. It helps that our…
Many people (Nigerians included) feel that Nigerian food is hard to cook and takes a long time to prepare. Whilst this is true to some extent, particularly as regards the preparation, there are several ways of getting around this. Master two key basics (a good stock) and a good tomato stew (sauce) and you are…
I read with amusement and some bemusement Jamie Oliver’s take on that West African perennial, Jollof Rice. My amusement stemmed from the many indignant comments on his website, Facebook and Twitter, mainly from my fellow Nigerians. His recipe and the photograph of the finished dish heightened my bemusement, but more on that later. The loudest…