So much in the days gone by, even strangers could travel from one locality to another without worrying about a place to sleep and food to eat in Africa. That was ones the level of hospitality in Africa.
However as villages grow to become town and towns to become cities,this long cherished value appears to be on the decline. Food is one of man's basic need, and most people prefer the food of their native land. So today, many visitors book into hotels and spend time perusing menus of meals they hope will be as appetising as promised in print.
In Africa it is only the wealthy and the relatively few others who have had the opportunity to travel abroad, who have acquired an appetite for foreign food. The majority of African people eat traditional food, which consists of Fufu, plantain, cocoyam, cassava and so on. These are usually served with sauces of which there is a great variety.
In most countries in Africa, you'll discover that all the big hotels specialized in foreign meals. Only few serve good quality African food. The queue to eat in such restaurants are so long that bookings well in advance have become a prerequisite.
In Abidjan African dishes were virtually absent from the menus of most of the luxurious hotels and restaurants. In Banjul on the other hand, there was wide variety of African food, though the African restaurant lacked the authentic African atmosphere,and the best hotels and restaurants serve European food almost exclusively.
When questions are asked, some hoteliers were reluctant to discuss the lack if African food in their restaurants. The general rationalization was that, their restaurant are international. But few international restaurants in other parts of the world serve even one dish of African food.
Another response was:'Most of our customers are European so we have to prepare European food'. But this is not tenable; vistors to China or India are served with Chinese or Indian food. In fact, those Indians, Chinese and other people who travel to other countries of the world, establish restaurant and promote the dishes of their people.
As the cities of Africa grow rapidly, in many cases people's home become situated far away from work. To dash to and fro during the lunch hour break is so wearisome that many Africans now eat in restaurants in the city. Here lies, a strong reasons for catering to a demand that is thoroughly African.
Furthermore,too many restaurants in Africa buy and use imported foods,though they are almost always full of chemical preservatives and do not taste as good as the natural products since they are usually canned, salted or frozen. Imported food also creates a drain on the economy of developing African countries and their meagre budgets, and deprives indigenous farmers of markets for their produce.
The most salient reason at this stage of our development is that the neo-colonial practice of making developing nations dependent on foreign goods. This helps to keep developing countries unindustrialized, powerless, and perpetual sources of raw materials dependent on external markets for finished products.
The situation is so bad that even Ghana and Nigeria Airways serve mostly European food to passengers.
It is time to change these trends. Africans and Europeans who insist on foreign meals should eat in foreign restaurants abroad;but while in Africa they should dance to rhythm of our drums.



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its just one of d many proves of black man's love for white tins.
esp. black gals