Frederick, Maryland, is getting a taste of the African continent this weekend when the Afro Flavour Food Festival is hosted in the city on Saturday, Sept. 6. Along with a wide variety of African cuisines featured with approximately 15 to 25 vendors, there is also fashion, art, music and networking expected at the event.

Yewande Oladeinde, president of the Association of Nigerians in Frederick, said, “The goal of this is to showcase the different areas within the African continent, so from the from West Africa to South Africa to East Africa and North Africa.”

Lucky Idike, CEO of Afro Flavour, said the festival has been hosted before in Baltimore, Maryland, as well as abroad in the United Kingdom, but this year is the first time it has been hosted in Frederick, Maryland.

“We’re bringing

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