Win the Jollof War

Who will win the Jollof War

For the past 100 years, Nigeria has been at war with her anglophone West African neighbour Ghana. The contest though is not the usual football tussle at the Africa Cup of Nations or a World Cup qualifier.

Nigeria and Ghana have been at loggerheads over the originator of Jollof Rice. For hundred years both countries slugged it out until Wikipedia finally settled the score and awarded that to Senegal. Both countries soon invented another competition: Who makes better Jollof Rice?

In case you are reading from somewhere in Europe or Asia you might want to see this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jollof_rice. There have been music videos and all sorts of contests about who makes better Jollof Rice since Senegal was adjudged to be the originator of Jollof Rice. Nigerian men and Ghanaian men would argue back and forth as would the women.

However, CNN's Richard Quest came to Nigeria on Quest means business and posed the question to Nigeria's Information and Culture minister Alhaji Lai Mohammed as a humour question fully intended to cause laughter at home and give people abroad a reason to visit Nigeria. His question was: who makes the best Jollof Rice? Note that the contest was between Nigeria and Ghana. The minister emphatically handed the trophy over to Senegal.

There you go. Senegal are the reigning Jollof Rice Champions of the World.

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