Welcome to the Celtnet Recipes section for recipes from the continent of Africa. Here you will find all the recipes for each and every African country and region gathered into one place. All the countries of the Continent of Africa are represented here with a (growing) number of recipes representing each. There are well over 1000 recipes in this collection, whish represents the largest collection of native and traditional African recipes gathered in one place on the internet.

If you are looking for the cuisine of a specific African country then please use the links below to navigate to the region and from there go to the country you are interested in:

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent. Apart from a land bridge connecting Egypt to the Arabian Peninsula now cut but the Suez Canal) Africa is entirely surrounded by seas: the Mediterranean, Atlantic, Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. It is the only continent that traverses from the Northern Temperate Zone across the topics to the Southern Temperate Zone. The countries of Africa are:

North Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Sudan; Tunisia and Western Sahara
West Africa: Benin; Burkina Faso; Côte d'Ivoire; The Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Liberia; Mali; Mauritania; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo and the islands of Cape Verde
Central Africa: Angola; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Chad; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Republic of the Congo; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon; Sāo Tomé and Principe<
East Africa: Burundi; Comoros; Djibouti; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Kenya; Madagascar; Malawi; Mauritius; Mayotte; Mozambique; Réunion; Rwanda; Seychelles; Somalia; Tanzania; Uganda; Zambia; and Zimbabwe
Southern Africa: Botswana; Lesotho; Namibia; South Africa and Swaziland.

These recipes also cover all historical periods from ancient stone-age recipes through the latest fusion recipes. This recipe page (and all the other recipe pages on this site) are brought to you in association with the 'One Million People' campaign, detailed below. If you find this and the other recipes on this page informative and/or useful please consider giving a small donation. Thank you!

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