Angela Ukomadu's Blog

   Just like every part of the palm tree is used for one thing or the other, so it is for the snail🐌 too. Absolutely nothing goes to waste. The flesh is used for meat, said to be highly nutritious and low in cholesterol. The slime is used for cosmetic products that can help to regenerate skin cells and heal wounds. The shell is blended and used for poultry feeds or fertilizer! Yep yep, didn't know about that until this story.    So there is also a huge market out there for the African giant snails that are in abundance in the country. People are buying these up and exporting to other countries like the UK, America and Europe...but to send to America, the snails need to be cleaned and freezed, but for other countries, they can be exported alive as far as you do a proper documentation and meet the required health approval of the said country. America considers the creature as a highly voracious and invasive pest that poses a risk to agriculture, the environment an...

Photo credit: Adaeze Ekwueme   From her kitchen (for now of-course), Adaeze Ekwueme plans to put Nigeria on the world's chocolate map, and she is doing this using locally sourced cocoa from a rural town in South West Nigeria.   First of all, have you ever wondered why Nigeria does not come to ones mind when talking about chocolates, even when the country is the world's fourth largest producer of cocoa? I mean almost all the cocoa we produce are exported, and then brought back again as chocolates?   Well, Adaeze is changing that, and she is doing it with cocoa seeds from Eti-Oni community.   The Eti-Oni  is historically the first village to plant cocoa in Nigeria. Now they have decided to not just plant, but also manage the whole process of planting to the final product by producing chocolates.   Although the Eti-Oni chocolates are yet to be seen in most shops, for them it is a slow but sure and steady rise to the top as they already supply to ...