West African countries such as Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Cameroon are famously competitive about who makes the best jollof rice. In which West African country, home of the Wolof people and the coastal town of Saint-Louis where cook Penda Mbaye is said to have invented the dish, is it called ceebu jen?

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Senegal. In Liberia, jollof rice has its own local variant, and Liberia is one of several West African countries that competes over who makes the best jollof, along with Ghana and Nigeria. Oral histories in Senegal credit Penda Mbaye, a cook in Saint-Louis, with inventing jollof rice using rice in place of barley.