The First NYC African Food Festival

Discover Africa’s food, as up-and-coming and established chefs, food historians, cultural experts, and DJs from across the African diaspora gather to celebrate the continent’s myriad cuisines at the inaugural New York City African Food Festival. The weekend-long festival will be curated to include a wide variety of meals representing every corner of the continent with a few new treats thrown in as well.

Festival goers can also kick back in the Shisha (hookah) tent, witness a Habesha coffee ceremony (a rare treat from the Horn of Africa), check out textiles and apparel from around the continent in the Queens Tent, and groove to DJs. The all-lady DJs spin everything from deep house to Afrobeat and Kuduro, and hail from across the Afro-world: Haiti, Mozambique, Ghana, France, Cape Verde, Angola, Germany, and South Africa. Curated by DJ PamBam (Berlin), their sets will kick off and wind up the festivities at the after party.