For those craving some Ghanian dishes, this Shaw restaurant has some of the staples on its menu like pepper soup, fufu, egusi, and jollof rice (rice cooked with tomato sauce and spices).

A favorite for fans of West African cuisine, Bukom Cafe is named after a famous square in Accra, Ghana and has a wide variety of West African dishes on the menu. The egusi is goat meat cooked with melon seeds — that's the namesake for the dish. It's popular in Nigeria.

The restaurant where diners can take a trip around the world occasionally offers a dish or two from the African continent. On the menu is gambas Mozambique which is literally "Mozambican shrimp". Because Mozambique was colonized by Portugal, the cuisines of the two countries are very much intertwined.

Located on 9th St NW amongst many other Ethiopian joints, Habesha is not only a restaurant but also a market. Shoppers can pop in to buy injera to take home and make their own Ethiopian meals.

This Eritrean/Ethiopian restaurant has many cross-cultural dishes on the menu, including its well-loved Eritrean breakfast bowl of fuul, which is seasoned beans topped with vegetables, greens, and scrambled eggs.

Moroccan cuisine is one of the more famous cuisines to come from Africa, and Marrakech Restaurant serves up many traditional dishes and has live belly dancing on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.

Sumach's goes for many of the West African regional dishes. And this restaurant may be the only place to find krain krain – the Sierre Leone stew made from leaves and traditionally eaten with fufu or rice.