#AfricaGap - A is for apple

When you watch this talk, you learn that teaching the alphabet with "A is for apple" is problematic in Africa. People do not eat apples, it is an exotic fruit, and it does not relate to the world of African children.

In my #AfricaGap project I aim to enrich information relevant to Africans. I started with African politicians and added a map of Africa with labels in the local language.

Thanks to Kelly Foster I added the 100 African women celebrated by OkayAfrica. This addresses the gender gap to some extend  and adds a healthy dose of women in the mix. Kelly is adding the 2017 women and I am not done yet with the 2018 women.

Obviously there are more politicians and, obviously the information about politicians is not complete. However, when people do add information about any of them it will update on Listeria lists on the English, the Zulu, Yoruba and Swahili Wikipedia. There must be other African awards as well.. Additional lists will happen when they do..

What the Ted talk taught me is that African food is different and, there is a point in highlighting these differences. There are categories specific for the national cuisine on the English Wikipedia. So when I am done with the OkayAfrica women African cuisine is next.

PS I am happy when people suggest other subjects particularly relevant to Africa. Collaborating on exposing them using Listeria lists and maybe info boxes is what I can achieve.
Thanks,
      GerardM

Do they eat cashew sprouts in #India ?

Hidden among the many pictures of Malayalam loves Wikipedia, there is a picture of a bucket full of cashew sprouts.

Bucket full of cashew sprouts

Because it is a picture of a bucket full of cashew sprouts, these sprouts themselves do not get the detailed attention they deserve.

cashew sprouts

When you google for "cashew sprouts" there is not much to find. There are no pictures of cashew sprouts either so I wonder, why do they have these sprouts in a bucket? Are they going to eat them, are they going to plant them?

There is no one Indian cuisine and if there is, I love it. However, I have never had cashew sprouts in a dish. Probably there is much in the Indian kitchen that you can only taste in India.
Thanks,
      GerardM