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🇳🇬Nigeria

Abula

Àbùlà

A Yoruba combination of gbegiri bean soup, ewedu jute leaf soup and obe ata pepper stew, served with amala, a southwestern Nigerian signature meal.

🇳🇬Calabar, Nigeria

Afang Soup

Afang

Shredded afang leaf and waterleaf cooked with palm oil, periwinkle, dried fish and meat into a dark, dense soup.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Afia Efere

Efik white soup made without palm oil, with meat or fish, pepper and fragrant spices.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Atama Soup

Efik and Ibibio palm-fruit soup with bitter atama leaves, meat or seafood and aromatic spices.

🇨🇲Cameroon

Banga Soup

Banga

Palm fruit pulp boiled and sieved into a red, oily broth spiced with beletientien and other Delta herbs, cooked with catfish or beef.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Bitterleaf Soup

Ofe onugbu

Washed bitter leaf cooked with cocoyam paste, palm oil, stockfish and meat into a thick soup that keeps a deliberate bitter edge.

🇳🇬Calabar, Nigeria

Edikang Ikong

Efik soup of waterleaf and pumpkin leaves cooked with a great deal of palm oil, periwinkle, dried fish and beef, and almost no water.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Egusi Soup

Egusi

Ground melon seeds cooked in palm oil with pepper, leafy greens and assorted meat or fish until the seed sets into soft lumps in the oil.

🇳🇬Ibadan, Nigeria

Ewedu

Jute leaves boiled and beaten with a broom-like whisk into a smooth green, slippery soup with locust bean and no pepper.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Fisherman Soup

A Nigerian coastal seafood soup with fresh fish, prawns, crab and sometimes snails in a spicy tomato and pepper broth, a Niger Delta specialty.

🇳🇬Ibadan, Nigeria

Gbegiri

Brown beans cooked to collapse and sieved into a smooth, pale yellow soup finished with palm oil.

🇳🇪Niger

Miyan Geda

Northern Nigerian groundnut soup cooked with aromatics and meat or fish.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Miyan Kubewa

Northern Nigerian dried-okra soup, thickened with okra and served with a swallow.

🇳🇪Kano, Niger

Miyan Kuka

Powdered baobab leaf cooked into a dark, slippery northern soup with dried meat, dawadawa and pepper.

🇳🇪Kano, Niger

Miyan Taushe

Pumpkin cooked down with groundnut paste, spinach and meat into a thick orange northern soup, mildly sweet.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Miyan Yakuwa

Hausa sorrel-leaf soup cooked with aromatics and meat or fish for a tangy northern Nigerian bowl.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Ofe Achara

An Igbo soup from Abia built around tender achara grass, meat or fish and a rich savoury broth.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Ofe Akwu

Igbo palm-fruit soup served with rice, distinct from Delta banga by its vegetable and seasoning profile.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Ofe Nsala

White soup with no palm oil at all, thickened with pounded yam and scented with uziza and utazi leaves, made with catfish.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Ofe Okazi

Igbo soup made with sliced okazi leaves, stockfish or meat and a richly seasoned broth.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Ofe Owerri

An Igbo vegetable soup from Owerri with okazi, ugu, uziza and oha leaves, thickened with cocoyam, rich with assorted meat and fish.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Ogbono Soup

Ogbono

Ground wild mango seed cooked into a soup that draws into long strands when lifted, with palm oil, meat, fish and bitter leaf.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Oha Soup

Ofe oha

Oha leaves torn by hand — never cut with a knife — cooked in a cocoyam-thickened palm oil broth with meat and stockfish.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Okoho Soup

Okoho

A traditional Idoma soup from Benue State made from the slimy extract of okoho plant bark, with bushmeat, stockfish and egusi balls, served with pounded yam.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Okra Soup

Ila alasepo

Chopped okra cooked briefly in a pepper and palm oil base with fish and meat, kept slippery and barely cooked.

🇱🇷Liberia

Pepper Soup

Thin, fiery broth of goat, catfish or chicken spiced with uda, uziza seed and calabash nutmeg, drunk as much as eaten.