West Africa: What Travels Along the Jollof Road?

31 July 2020
analysis

For three months, a few colleagues and I travelled across West Africa discovering the many things that bind us together... alongside Jollof Rice.

Since before we can remember, people have travelled across West Africa looking for grain, glory, god, and gold. Last year, I joined them, travelling with a small group of colleagues - two women, three men, and a ubiquitous black bus as the sixth - for adventure and stories. Who were we to ignore the call of the road? One question drove us to this journey: Jollof Rice travelled across West Africa from Senegal, but what else travelled? Culture, politics? How have people navigated the region over the decades? We called our trip the Jollof Road, because as silk travelled down the Silk Road, so did other things.

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