In celebration of the Africa Masquerade Festival BFEG present Africa Pot a Cooking that show case best of Africa food.

According to Sarah Dwyer, program manager at Oldways and the team leader for the African Heritage & Health Initiative, since Africans who eat traditional foods from Africa are healthier than those who adopt a typical Western diet, the research suggests that a healthful African American diet should go back to its roots.

fufu, also spelled foofoo, a popular dish in western and central African countries and, due to African migration, in the Caribbean as well.

Native African crops like yams, sorghum and millet are widely used in African cookery, as well as cultivated imports like wheat, rice, corn and cassava. Starches for breads and a common African food called fufu or ugali are derived from these crops.