While foodie culture reaches new heights in the West, the staple diet of many in the Sahel is millet. It’s the polar opposite of junk food, taking hours to prepare and being super nutritious. Our video shows a Fulani girl in Ouagadougou preparing nyiiri, which is the daily food for many Fulani in the North,…
Legend has it that a woman was washing her husband’s clothes when she accidentally dropped them in mud. They were stained brown and the technique of mud cloth dyeing was born. It was later discovered that fermented mud reacts with tannin and produces black. White is formed by bleaching away the colour. The legend of…