Okra with tomatoes is a popular Togo African recipe convenient to make cooking with the traditions of the African diaspora. Hibiscus Esculentus or okra is of African originating from Ethiopia. Okra grows wild along the White Nile and the upper Nile country as well as in Ethiopia.

From Ethiopia to North Africa, okra was cultivated in Egypt for many hundreds of years. One of the earliest accounts of okra is by the Spanish in Egypt in 1216.  As is true with a number of less popular vegetables, many people fail to appreciate okra. Okra is rarely cooked alone except when fried. Okra alone is considered too slimy.  Here is a delicious recipe using okra and tomatoes. The acid in the tomatoes counterbalance the natural goo of the okra and the soup become rich and thick.

Togo Okra With Tomatoes Recipe

Ingredients

1 pound fresh baby okra, washed, dried, stem ends trimmed very close to top, or use frozen thawed whole baby okra

2 tablespoons olive oil

1/4 cup finely chopped onion

1 clove garlic, finely minced

2 medium tomatoes, peeled, diced, or 1 can (14.5 ounces) diced tomatoes

1 tablespoon lemon juice

Dash salt and pepper

Directions

Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Sauté the okra for 3 to 5 minutes, then remove with a slotted spoon to paper towels. Heat the remaining tablespoon of olive oil in the saucepan. When hot, add the chopped onion; sauté for 2 to 3 minutes.

Add the garlic and sauté another 2 minutes. Add the diced tomatoes and stir together until the mixture boils. Turn down to a simmer; add the lemon juice, salt, and pepper. Simmer for 30 minutes longer.

To serve spoon about a few tablespoons of sauce into a serving dish. Top with the okra then cover with remaining sauce. Serves 4 to 6.

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Sierra Leone’s Vision for 2013 to 2035 is to become a middle-income country

Before the Ebola outbreak, Sierra Leone was on track to overcome its troubled past. The countries Ebola epidemic threatened to stop the progress of Sierra Leone economic and social growth. The post-Ebola recovery period is proving challenging. 

Sierra Leone’s Vision for 2013 to 2035 is to become a middle-income country, be an inclusive, green country, with 80% of the population above the poverty line, have gender equality, a well-educated, healthy population, good governance and rule of law, well-developed infrastructure, macroeconomic stability, with private-sector, export-led growth generating wide employment opportunities; there would be good environmental protection, and responsible natural resource exploitation.

The post-Ebola recovery period could prove challenging but the small African nation since the end of the civil war in 2002 has found the strength and resources to inch by inch re establish itself, despite Ebola the county can remain on track for vision 2035.

Sierra Leone in 2035

Sierra Leone hopes by 2035 their vision will be fulfilled when this child turns 25

Sierra Leone hopes by 2035 their vision will be fulfilled

Hunger is eradicated

Less than 5% of people seeking jobs would be without work

Over 80% of the population above the poverty line

Free and compulsory education for every child

Over 90% of the population able to read and write

Access to affordable housing for all

A health care and delivery system within a 10 kilometer radius of every village

An effective and efficient child and family welfare system

Life expectancy of 70 years, where every mother has access to a modern hospital in which she can give birth without fear and loss of child

Less than 11% stunting among children under two years of age

An independent and accessible judiciary enjoying the confidence of the people

A system of political governance where governments are voted in and out of power peacefully, and where citizens can hold governments to account for efficient and effective delivery of public services

A modern and well developed infrastructure with reliable energy supplies

World standard Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) ICT is an umbrella term that includes any communication device or application: radio, television, cellular phones, computer and network hardware and software, satellite systems, etc…

A stable, export-led economy, based on sound macroeconomic fundamentals, with inflation close to 5% and government revenues increased significantly to 35% of GDP

Private sector-led growth, creating value-added products, and providing jobs for our people

An effective environmental management system in place that protects our biodiversity and is capable of preempting environmental disasters

To be a model in responsible and efficient natural resource exploitation

Socially, economically and politically empowered women contributing to national development in various forms

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What is lamb? Lamb is meat from young sheep less than 12 months old; lamb tastes like a lamb, which is tender and mild in flavor. The flavor of lamb is often characterized as tender and mild, with a hint of gaminess. The tenderness of lamb meat is a result of its youth, as younger animals tend to have more tender flesh compared to older ones. If your family is trying lamb for the first time, slow cooker lamb stew is the perfect meal.

Slow Cooker Lamb and Vegetable Stew

Slow Cooker Lamb Vegetable Stew

Ingredients

2 pounds lamb stew meat, or cubed lean boneless lamb

2 medium tomatoes, peeled and seeded, chopped

1 diced carrot

2 medium potatoes

1 cup mushrooms, sliced

1/2 cup bell peppers, chopped

1 onion, chopped

2 teaspoons salt

1 garlic clove, crushed

1/2 teaspoon thyme leaves

1 bay leaf

2 cups chicken stock

2 tablespoons butter

2 tablespoons flour

Directions

Place lamb and vegetables in a slow cooker. Mix salt, garlic, thyme, and bay leaf into stock; pour over lamb and vegetables. Cover and cook on low 8 to 9 hours, until lamb and vegetables, are tender. Turn to high setting. Blend flour and butter, and then shape into small balls. Drop into stew and cook, stirring frequently, until thickened.

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African proverbs that make you think.

I will not be your fool any more African proverbs explains to us that sometimes it is hard to know if you are being taken for granted.

Not Being Anyone's Fool African Proverbs

Not being anyone's fool African proverbs convey the message that you must not fool yourself. After being fooled once, read wise relationship African proverbs and be wary so you cannot be tricked again.

African Proverbs

Good looking fruit could be rotten inside

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.

No hyena deserves to be entertained twice.

Denial cannot hide cigarette smoke.

The wise chief does not eat from two sides.

An honest enemy is better than a best friend who lies.

He who smiles too much with you will frown too much with you at your back.

The good looking fruit could be rotten inside.

Ashes are a result of a fire.

A friend's eye is a good mirror.

An honest enemy is better than a best friend who lies.

More relationship African proverbs on avoiding being the fool

The apple falls under the apple-tree.

Put not pepper in other people's meals.

A bad relationship is like coal: if it doesn't burn, it blackens you.

A change of rulers is the joy of fools.

A dog doesn't enter if the door is not open.

The pearl lies at the bottom of the sea, while the corpse floats.

The locust lives only a little while, but it does great damage.

A relative's slap hurts more than a stranger's.

The snake sheds his skin, but never his habits.

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The South African marula fruit and oil are edible and loved by humans and animals, especially the warthog, elephant, waterbuck, giraffe, and kudu all eat the fruit, nut, and leaves of the tree.

Recipes, Facts, and Legends Abound About the African Marula Tree

Recipes and legends abound on the multiple uses of the marula tree bark, leaves, fruits, nuts, oil, and kernels. Nonalcoholic drinks, wines, teas, spices, oils, and medicines are all created using the Marula Tree of Southern Africa.

South African marula fruit

Eswatini Marula Festival

A popular drink in eSwatini (formally known as Swaziland) is Buganu also known as marula wine. The third weekend in February is a popular time for the people of Eswatini because this kicks off a celebration of the beginning of the marula fruit season and the week-long Marula Festival. 

The Marula Festival is a tradition-filled with song and dance and Brewing of marula wine. The king and queen mother joined by regiments of emabutfo male warriors and lutsango woman's troops of Eswatini take part in the celebration as marula season as it is one of the largest festivals held in his Royal compound. 

Once the king and queen have officially blessed and partaken in the drinking of the first marula wine of the season the rest of ESwatini is permitted to join in a drink marula beer until their heart's content. 

This two-day Festival May last for many days because morula is not only a popular fruit to make a drink from but it's also a Cornerstone of ESwatini economy. To make Buganu marula wine is a very easy age-old method of fermenting fruits to produce alcohol. 

Buganu is prepared from marula fruit juice and the pulp mixed with water and sugar. The mixture was allowed to ferment at room temperature for about 3 days. The marula wine is then sieved and then served. Local Eswatini woman brews the wine and offers many bottles as gifts to the king and queen mother.

Marula Oil Traditional Uses

For centuries throughout Southern and Eastern Africa, women in the have cracked the nut of the marula fruit to extract the precious kernels from which the oil is made. 

 

Marula is a much-loved fruit in the grasslands of Africa

Traditional uses of marula include putting baked nuts into foods as a spice, over meat as a natural preservative, and in using oil from the kernels to soften the skin. The chambers of the marula nut are opened to reveal soft kernels. 

These kernels are then gathered into a pressing machine, where they are hand-pressed to make the magic of marula oil. The Marula tree has a specific gender, this fact contributes to the belief among the South African Venda people that bark infusions can be used to determine the gender of an unborn child.

If a woman wants a son the male tree is used, and for a daughter, the female tree. If the child of the opposite gender is born, the child is said to be very special as it was able to defy the spirits. Most well known as the fruit that elephants eat to get tipsy when ripe marula fruit drops to the ground it becomes deliciously fermented. 

Marula fruit apparently has intoxicating effect when consumed in large quantities by large mammals such as elephants. Elephants can eat between 400-700 marula fruit a day and if young elephant eats nothing else this can lead to tipsy behavior.

Marula is a much loved fruit in the grasslands of Eastern and Southern Africa. The fruits can be found from Ethiopia to Southern Africa’s’ Kwazulu-Natal. The Marula fruit is juicy and sweet-smelling and is the size of a small plum. The fruit may be eaten fresh or cooked into jam, juices and alcoholic beverages; the flesh is very high vitamin C.

Anna Nyathi shares dish of corn and marula kernels in Belfast Mpumalanga Province South Africa.

Another Marula Drink Recipe

Humans enjoy marula fruit as well in the form of cream liqueur. Amarula is a cream liqueur from South Africa made with sugar, cream and the fruit of the African marula tree. 

One popular recipe is Amarula Brown Elephant

South African Amarula Brown Elephant Recipe

2 ounces Amarula Cream

1/3 cup whole milk

1/3 cup Coca-Cola

In South Africa, homemade marula wine is named mokhope or ubuganu and is an interesting part of the cultural heritage of South Africa. Brewed liquor has always been of importance using indigenous food products. Nonalcoholic drinks, wines, teas, spices, oils, and medicines are all created using the Marula Tree of Southern Africa.

 

Peeling the marula fruit to separate the kernel, for the oil, and the pulp in South Africa.

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African food is delicious; recipes are full of flavor and spice lovingly prepared by African families for generations. Learn how to cook 30-minute healthy chicken groundnut stew African food recipe tonight.

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Chicken Groundnut Stew is a popular street foods in Africa

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Groundnuts are used as food and for cooking oil. The seeds in Africa are popularly used for thickening soups and stews and as a seasoning.

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The groundnut taste like chickpeas with a very mild flavor.

Delicious Chicken Groundnut Stew Recipe

Ingredients

2 pounds cut up chicken legs

1 medium onion, sliced

1 medium red or green pepper, chopped

1 cup peanut butter

3 medium carrots, peeled and cut into 1/2 inch circles

1 teaspoon. salt

1 teaspoon red pepper flake

Salt to taste

1 teaspoon tomato paste

Water

Directions
Boil chicken in about 3 cups of water in a medium saucepan. Boil until chicken is done; remove from saucepan. Add onion, chopped pepper, tomato paste, salt, and cayenne pepper to chicken broth. Cook for 10 minutes. Add a small amount of water to peanut butter to make a smooth paste. Add peanut butter and carrots to broth mixture and boil for 5 minutes. Add chicken and simmer for 10 minutes. Serve over rice or boiled potatoes.

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