Igbo food is not 'African' food



By 
Okechukwu Ononaeke 
Igbo food is not 'African' food. Igbo food is simply Igbo food. Abacha is Abacha. Akpụ is Akpụ. Ọkpa is Ọkpa. Nkwobi is Nkwobi. Ukwa is Ukwa. FioFio is FioFio. Africa has hundreds of Nations, each with its own peculiar food or borrowed food. A nation's food is a product of the nation's material existentialism and historicism over centuries or millenials. A nation's food is contributory to that nation's specificities, including physical appearance and even longevity. Every Nation has its own food. No Nation's food is 'better'. Every nation's food is 'good'. 
 Igbo food is not 'better' food but food peculiar to the Igbo and Ala-IGBO.  As Igbo, promote Igbo food as Igbo food. Do not appropriate Igbo foods to 'African' (what ever that means). It could signal intention to 'dominate' which may fuel Igbophobia or to lose as we have become accustomed to being losers.

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