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Number 76 on the 2025 list
Malume Foodie is a food content creator from South Africa, named to the AFN 100 in 2025 for winning Food Creator of the Year at TikTok's African awards in Johannesburg.
On 6 December 2025 Malume Foodie won Food Creator of the Year at the TikTok Awards Sub-Saharan Africa in Johannesburg, ahead of Ghana's Chef Abbys, who was runner-up. He was the only South African to win a category that night. A self-taught cook from Pretoria who posts as @malumfoodie, he credits his humble beginnings in Hammanskraal and Soshanguve for the home cooking that built his audience.