Chinelo Okparanta on why Nigerian Jollof is the best

Winner of the 2016 Lambda Literary Award and all-round badass woman, Chinelo Okparanta in an interview with Franklyne Ikediasor, settles the Jollof disputes once and for all.

If you were to have a dinner party which five people would you invite and why?

I'd invite my immediate family--my mom, two sisters and my brother. That takes care of four. A family affair. The fifth is a hard one. I might invite my only living grandparent--my mother's mother. But she doesn't really do dinner parties. But I might invite her all the same.

Not to be greedy, but may I invite a sixth person? Because I'm too tired these days to cook, so I'd very much like to invite a sixth person--a proper Nigerian cook, to make us proper isi ewu, or maybe some good ofe oha and poundo.

On Nigerian Jollof

Nigerian jollof, of course, because everyone knows Nigerian jollof is chief among jollofs ;-). )

Franklyne Ikediasor is partial to black coffee and a good African Novel. He lives in Portharcourt Nigeria where he spends his leisure time running, cycling or getting together with friends to share bouts of wine fuelled laughter. He tweets @ThatPortharcourtBoy

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