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Moringa lattes and tigernut kebabs: the young Ghanaians ‘taking back the power’ of their food
In Ghana, a grassroots movement is championing nutritious, homegrown, climate-resilient produce, rather than western imports After three years at catering school, Abiro Wisdom was certain of one thing – he did not want to go into catering. At least not the route that he might be expected to take. His course at Accra Technical University had prepared students for working in international hotels, focusing on French, It…
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The Ghana Food Movement's cooking masterclasses offer local people the chance to learn more about traditional Ghanaian food. Photograph: Ghana Food Movement View image in fullscreen The Ghana Food Movement's cooking masterclasses offer local people the chance to learn more about traditional Ghanaian food. Photograph: Ghana Food Movement Food security Moringa lattes and tigernut kebabs: the young Ghanaians ‘taking back the power’ of their food In Ghana, a grassroots movement is championing nutritious, homegrown, climate-resilient produce, rather than western imports
About this content Kaamil Ahmed Wed 26 Aug 2026 10.00 BST Last modified on Wed 26 Aug 2026 10.01 BST Share Prefer the Guardian on Google A fter three years at catering school, Abiro Wisdom was certain of one thing – he did not want to go into catering. At least not the route that he might be expected to take. His course at Accra Technical University had prepared students for working in international hotels, focusing on French, Italian and Mexican cuisine. The nutritious, homegrown food that Wisdom had eaten while growing up in Bolgatanga, northern Ghana , did not feature at all.
“I didn’t see myself there,” he says of the big chain hotels. “I felt I wouldn’t be myself working there – I wouldn’t be able to talk about the food from where I come from.”
View image in fullscreen Abiro Wisdom found that his catering course in Accra did not feature the nutritious, homegrown food that he had grown up eating. Photograph: Ghana Food Movement Wisdom instead joined the Ghana Food Movement (GFM), which was founded in 2019 – the year he graduated – and quickly became a champion for Indigenous foods. He says: “We’re a community of food lovers, of believers in the potential of Ghanaian food.”
Ghana imports at least half of its food and is heavily influenced by foreign cuisine and ingredients, but Wisdom believes northern Ghana, the country’s agricultural heartland with its huge variety of nutritious and climate-resilient crops and vegetables, could be the secret to the country’s broken food system.