Hadiza Ango
Who is Chef Amors? Hadiza Ango is a northern Nigerian food blogger and YouTuber who cooked jollof rice for 16 people while still in primary school.
2 min read
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The people behind African food: chefs, founders and the cooks shaping how the continent eats, profiled by the AFN editorial team.
Chefs and cooks profiled by the AFN editorial team, from Africooks in our own community to those making their names in kitchens elsewhere.
Who is Chef Amors? Hadiza Ango is a northern Nigerian food blogger and YouTuber who cooked jollof rice for 16 people while still in primary school.
2 min read
Who is Chef Abby? Abena Aboagye of Chefabbys is a Ghanaian engineer from the Ashanti Region who started cooking seriously during Covid quarantine.
2 min read
Siphokazi Mdlankomo went from domestic work to MasterChef South Africa, a Pick n Pay ambassador role and four seasons of her own TV cooking show.
3 min read
Liziwe Matloha is a food writer, cookery class host and TV chef from Potchefstroom who finds peace in cooking and calls it her love language.
4 min read
Phathisiwe Khumalo, known as Pam the Chef Wife, started cooking to win over her in-laws and went on to qualify as a chef.
4 min read
Chef Donkey is a South African cook trained in London kitchens who runs pop-ups and a YouTube channel. Read about a quail with chocolate cake flop.
2 min read
People building businesses in African food: founders, restaurateurs, producers.
Jamila Zomah left banking to found African Dishout, so people in the US can order African food online. Read why she started it and how it got going.
3 min read
