Africa is rich in cultural diversity, particularly in food. Every part of the continent has a regional speciality. African delicacies — their diversity, uniqueness, taste, preparations, and aroma — provide a thrill beyond comprehension. Food bloggers in Africa make our mouths water by using photographic techniques to create stories with strong appeal.
Food blogs are fantastic resources for tourists as well as anyone interested in preparing different meals or adding some creativity to what they already know. African food bloggers make this possible through their crafts. They make us feel at home with their meal descriptions, preparations, and symbolism.
Some meals look so good that we want to eat them right off the screen—all thanks to a good food blogger who is worth his or her salt! We have curated a list of top food bloggers in Africa that you might want to bookmark and visit.
In no particular, let’s dive into it:
Winifred Nwania, the creator of Zeelicious, is a talented content creator. Her videos demonstrate how to cook various dishes in detail—providing a step-by-step guide in a hand-holding format. She specialises in cooking healthy dishes with a touch of culinary etiquette. She currently hosts a cooking show and runs a brand that teaches basic etiquette. Zeelicious is the place to go for sensational, delicious recipes and healthy meal preparation.
Instagram Account – @Zeeliciousfoods
YouTube – Zeelicious Foods
Ify Mogekwu is passionate about demystifying the art and science of culinary. You can get recipes and videos on different dishes from different parts of the country by hanging around her bog. Her food cuts across Nigerian dishes and continental dishes. You will learn so much visiting her blog, from the simplest to the most complex Nigerian dishes, including sandwiches, desserts, pastries, soups and stews, and so on.
Instagram Account – @ifys.kitchen
YouTube – Ify’s Kitchen
This blog is mouth-watering at first sight because Dooney’s Kitchen knows how to deliver premium content. The platform also allows you to place an order for stew, soup, and your preferred dishes if you are in the United Kingdom, Canada, Central Europe, Dubai, and the United States. The flags on Dooney’s Kitchen website represent all the countries they deliver to. If you want to place an order, all you need to do is click on your country flag on the site and, wham, you are in.
Yemisi Sophie Odusanya, fondly called Sisi Yemmie, is a popular Nigerian blogger who runs the eponymous Sisi Yemi brand. She blogs about lifestyle, recipes, and everything motherhood. From her social media pages, you can enjoy premium content on different recipes that will aid your cooking experience. She also has a calendar to help those who have difficulties deciding what to have for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Talk about cooking made easy!
Instagram Account – @sisi_yemie
YouTube – Sisi YemmieTV
Flo Chinyere, the brain behind this food blog, provides you with Nigerian cuisine as prepared by our mothers and grandmothers. The site provides a step-by-step procedure on how to prepare different meals, and it goes further to describe recipes (and their required ingredients) using popularly known items so they can be easily found in the market. All you need to do is type whatever meal you want to prepare into the search box, and you are good to go.
YouTube – Flo Chinyere
Ash and Dede are the owners and managers of Accracraves with the tagline ‘Crave. Taste. Indulge.’ Their page provides a virtual culinary tour of Ghana—the ideal site to visit before planning your next dinner out and making great choices.
@TasteGhana is one IG page we also recommend. The page helps you to discover Ghana’s hidden culinary gems. It is managed by Kobe Boateng, a medical doctor and entrepreneur who is passionate about food and locally-made cuisines.
Joana Yeboah-Acheampong is a civil engineer born in Accra, Ghana but resides in the United Kingdom. Her concept, Aftrad Village Kitchen, reflects her passion for all things meal. She uses her blog to spread knowledge and share some traditional recipes. However, she focuses on Ghanaian dishes or meals of Ghanaian origin.
Instagram – @aftradvillagekitchen
YouTube – Aftrad Village Kitchen
If you want to learn how to make various Kenyan dishes, you should watch Jikoni Magic. Jikoni, one of the best African meal bloggers, has a YouTube channel with over 60,000 subscribers, and a blog that displays different Kenyan cuisines that leave you wanting more. Agnes Kalyonge is the founder of Jikoni Magic which contains a variety of recipes ranked by difficulty and preparation time.
YouTube – Jikoni Magic
Kaluhi Adagala, the blogger behind Kaluhi’s Kitchen, is a Kenyan award-winning food enthusiast. Kaluhi shares recipes for everyday Kenyan meals on her blog and YouTube channel. Her blog aims to change how people plan, cook, eat and share meals. She caters to a wide range of people, so whether you are a culinary pro or a novice in the kitchen, she’s got you covered.
Instagram Account – @kaluhiskitchen
YouTube – Kaluhi’s Kitchen
Gatuiri Irauka, a Kenyan food blogger, cookbook author, and lover of good delicacies, is the proprietor of Leo Tunapika (Loosely translated to “what are we cooking today”). She began her blog in 2012 when she was a newlywed and wanted to document her kitchen adventures. She shares a wide range of recipes, from African delicacies such as matoke and matumbo to home baking such as samosas, red velvet cakes, cookies, and a slew of other popular Kenyan dishes.
YouTube – Leo Tunapika
Kate Tin is one of the best African meal blogs. Katelyn, the owner of this blog, is a regular face on Expresso, a daily South African breakfast show where she demonstrates her passion for baking and cooking. The Kate Tin serves popular South African dishes and other culinary creations. At the 2014 South African Blogger Awards, The Kate Tin was named “Best Food and Wine Blog.”
Instagram – @thekatetin
Freda Muyambo owns My Burnt Orange, home to the Afro Cosmopolitan Diet. She is a wife and an electrical engineer.
My Burnt Orange is a food blog that uses edibles to promote the positive aspects of African culture. The blog features a variety of how-to videos for popular African dishes. As a result, if you want to learn about popular meals from Botswana and other African countries, you should follow My Burnt Orange.
Instagram Account – @myburntorange
YouTube – My Burnt Orange
Raphael King’ori, also known as Chef Raphael, grew up fascinated by how simple ingredients are transformed into delicious meals in his mother’s kitchen. Naturally, after finishing high school, he enrolled at the prestigious Kenya Utalii College in Nairobi and interned at the Carnivore Restaurant in Kenya, and has never looked back since then.
Chef Raphael owns a website where he shares his culinary expertise and a YouTube channel with over 230k subscribers. He also has a large Facebook following of over 800k followers and is active on Instagram and Twitter. Among other things, he provides cooking classes, culinary consulting, and private catering for events.
Instagram –@chefraphaelkn
YouTube – Chef Raphael
Sam Linsell owns Drizzle and Drip. Her blog is a recipe, delicacy, and travel blog. Her passion for cooking made her quit her corporate job to build her dream life around meal creativity.
Sam describes her most extraordinary adventures as cooking and baking, and she is now a professional meal stylist, recipe developer, and edibles photographer. Sam’s background in hospitality management and food brand marketing has aided her in her solo-entrepreneur career.
Instagram – @drizzleanddrip
Grubbys is a group of enthusiastic and passionate chefs, food nutritionists, and dieticians who love to share healthy tips and recipes to help you eat healthy, cheaply, and conveniently. They also share easy African and Kenyan recipes that you can make with ingredients you can find locally. Meal delivery in Kenya is also not left out.
Undoubtedly, Africa has some of the world’s most nutritious and tasty cuisines. No wonder the continent is home to a slew of meal bloggers. These African bloggers experiment with various recipes to develop their own, which they then share on their blogs.