Category:Central African Food Traditions and Festivals

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Central Africa is a place of festivals and celebrations. These festivals naturally involve a lot of food traditions and they touch all the dimensions in people’s lives. Such dimensions celebrated through these festivals are birth and initiation, marriage, and sometimes, even courtship, selection of the tribes’ chiefs, beliefs, gods and worships, and ancestors. One of the most important celebrations in Central Africa is dedicated to death. People here have very strong beliefs and they believe in spirits and other such things. The food and drink that use to accompany these festivals are usually traditional foods. The chicken is believed to be a better type of meat that is why during the most important celebrations the dishes are prepared with chicken meat or poultry. Food here reflects local influence, but it also reflects a mixture of other colonial traditions. The Central African cuisine represents a combination of fruits, vegetables, meat and milk. The everyday Central African diet consists of mostly milk, curds and whey.