A chef called Jonny Garrett posted a recipe for the quintessentially Ghaniain/Nigerian/west African dish jollof rice on well known tv chef jamie oliver's website a few months ago. This recipe differed from the variations that are considered 'the traditional recipe' (according to people I know there isn't an official traditional recipe just common themes), most people absolutely didn't give a shit about this, but angry people and fans of the dish, cause over 2000 comments of drama in the comments section. including classics like

What is hell is this. I am a west african woman and I find this extremely offensive. You have taken years of my west african culture and slaughter it with your makeshift recipe. Bye

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Coriander, parsley and lemon wedge? You done craze we don't use that crap and we blend our tomatoes and peppers not eat it whole.Where is the curry powder, thyme, crayfish powder and maggi cubes? Chai Diaris God o. Don't put twist to centuries of tradition stick with your English food before I send Shango, Ogun and Obatala to smite you shio

and the inevitable edginess sharp enough to cut any onion

Who gives a f**k. Only naggers.

and some fun

jollof warrior • 17 days ago... Eh, this man has no fear oh. Charlie, let me tell you this: you can take slaves away from the coast, colonise us, give us aid and take our oil and mineral, refuse us a visa, look down on us but if you touch our jollof rice, walaiyi, there would be war, brimstone, fire and pestilence deadlier than Ebola! So Jamie, next time think hard before you touch a West African's food!

a blog post, that I'm not sure is 100% serious, kicks the drama up another notch, people flood into the Jamie Oliver comments and [http://motleymusings.com/2014/10/28/that-time-jamie-oliver-made-jollof-rice-jollofgate/] and the twitter hashtag #jollofgate was born.

Apparently it was covered in (the internet versions of) all the 'proper' papers aswell and the bbc, with this hilarious quote (again that I'm not sure is 100% serious) from the blogger.

We have to ask ourselves who actually benefits from Jamie Oliver's 'appreciation' of Jollof rice. This doesn't necessarily translate into value for Africans. For so long, different African cultures have been appropriated without any direct benefit to Africans themselves, and people are particularly sensitive to this born.