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Number 4 on the 2024 list
Evette Quoibia is a chef from Liberia, named to the AFN 100 in 2024 for cooking Liberian dishes for 140 hours to beat the Guinness cooking marathon record.
From 19 to 25 February 2024, Liberian-born chef Evette Quoibia cooked for 140 hours, 11 minutes and 11 seconds in Melbourne, Australia, beating the previous Guinness World Records mark of 119 hours and 57 minutes for the longest individual cooking marathon. She served Liberian dishes such as jollof rice, cassava leaves and pepper soup. Her family fled Liberia's civil war, and she was raised in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.