Mama Afrika Success Secrets revealed
by Tafadzwa Sandi and Tinashe Kwangwari
The African continent is colored with a variety of food
dishes and ingredients that were passed by the word of mouth from generation to
generation. However, most of these dishes crossed seas and borders from Africa
to Northern Cyprus.
Located in the heart of Nicosia is Mama Afrika one of the
fast growing African restaurants in Northern Cyprus serving delicious African
dishes including Pounded Yam soup with beef, Amala soup with beef, Yam porridge,
and Fried Yam and egg with stew among other exquisite African meals.
Mama Afrika Restaurant is known for its reliability home delivery services and have now over three years operating at the same venue since it started.
Gülşah Anaekwe
Gülşah Anaekwe told Passionate Channel that she and her husband decided to start the food business in year 2013 because they wanted Africans living in the Northern Cyprus not to lose touch with food from their homeland.
“Me and my husband started Mama Afrika and after
brainstorming we came up with the name Mama Afrika for our business since there
was no other African Restaurants on this Island”,said Gülşah Anaekwe.
“We thought like it can be the mother of Africans, you know when
your mother cook and feed you. Mama Africa will remind everyone of home,” added
Gülşah
Like any other foreign business in Northern Cyprus Mama
Afrika also faced their own portion of challenges to start the business. They
had to go through the required registration process of their business.
“There were some serious documentation we had to go through,
we had no mind to hide somewhere and operate illegally and so engaged legal professionals to help us with the necessary paper work”, said Gülşah
Moreover, Gülşah who is the master Chef, said that running a business and owning a
business of course I support education but there are some things one have to go
through.
Somethings you find them off the book while working on your
business, education is very important at
least it gives you the background of the
business even before you start it, she elaborated.
“If you want to start a restaurant at least you should know
how to cook”, Gülşah added
In three years to come Gülşah is looking forward to open
more branches in different places like Girne and Magusa.
To get in touch with Mama Afrika follow them on Instagram “mama.afrika’’ and on Facebook “Mama
Afrika Restaurant’’.