Africa Dining Etiquette


international dining etiquette


north africa

These links will take you to pages with dining etiquette information for the region. Where a particular country's dining etiquette dominates a region, those dining etiquette rules are incorporated by reference with a link to the page with the dominate dining etiquette.

africa (east & central)

The center the region is the Congo. Surrounding the Congo are cultures that are a mix of north and south: Cameroon, Gabon, and the Central African Republic.

The east is made up of Kenya and Tanzania, as well as Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi.

These links will take you to pages with dining etiquette information for the region. Where a particular country's dining etiquette dominates a region, those dining etiquette rules are incorporated by reference with a link to the page with the dominate dining etiquette.

southern africa

The region is geographically Southern Africa - further broken down into its geographic components of:

The North consisting of: Zambia and Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique and the Malagasy Republic.

The South consisting of: South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland, Botswana, and Namihia.

These links will take you to pages with dining etiquette information for the region. Where a particular country's dining etiquette dominates a region, those dining etiquette rules are incorporated by reference with a link to the page with the dominate dining etiquette.

western africa

The dining etiquette in this region will be reviewed by first looking at dining etiquette in the Atlantic Coast cultures. Then, moving from north to south, the dining etiquette of Senegal and Gambia, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone and Liberia, and Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). Next we will consider dining etiquette in the West African Gulf, we will look at Ghana and Nigeria, Benin and Togo, and Burkina Faso.

These links will take you to pages with dining etiquette information for the region. Where a particular country's dining etiquette dominates a region, those dining etiquette rules are incorporated by reference with a link to the page with the dominate dining etiquette.

africa map