The Jolof or Wolof Empire was a confederacy state that ruled parts of West Africa situated in modern-day Senegal, Mali, 展开

Jollof rice traditionally consists of rice, cooking oil, tomatoes puree, onion,salt, chilies, and often some combination of other ingredients such as 展开

Cameroon
The Cameroon version, sometimes called fried rice, often includes red peppers, carrots, green beans and smoked paprika. 展开

Jollof is culturally important in much of West Africa to the point there is a common saying, "A party without Jollof is just a meeting". In Nigeria the term, "See Jollof" means "see how much fun is being had" according to Nigerian food historian Ozoz Sokoh. 展开

Jollof rice is one of the most common dishes in West Africa. There are several regional variations in name and ingredients; for example, in Mali it is called zaamè in 展开

West African countries typically have at least one variant form of the dish, with Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Cameroon particularly competitive as to which country makes the best jollof. In the mid-2010s this expanded into the "Jollof Wars". 展开

In French-speaking West Africa, including Beninese, Burkinabé, Guinean, Guinea-Bissauan, Ivorian, Nigerien, and Togolese cuisines, there is a variant called riz gras or riz au gras, which translates to "fat rice", a reference to the short-grain rice usually used in the dish. Riz … 展开