How to Make a Pizza in Africa



Meet my housemates:

Emily, Ali, Rose, & Kara


1. Mix dough and sauce ingredients from scratch.
2. Attempt to turn on oven, discovering that neither the gas nor the electricity is actually hooked up.

3. Consider options: Try cooking pizza on stovetop? Clean out clay oven in yard and look for firewood? Ask a friend?

4. The choice my housemates and I chose this Saturday was to ask a friend. We called the first friends, and they didn't even have an oven. But, they did have the cheese we needed. The second friends were heading to a BBQ, but were very willing to let us use their oven.

This is a bajaji. It is the most exciting
form of transportation ever. Like a golf
cart with a Harley engine, bajajis can zip in
and out of traffic and lanes and go up dirt
roads. I feel like I'm on an Indiana Jones
adventure each time I take one!



5. Two housemates catch a bajaji to get the cheese; Three housemates catch a bajaji (see photo to right for explanation) to start baking the pizza.

6. Discover friends' oven is extra small; tear pizza crust apart to fit in different pan.

7. Bake, thankful to the landlord that he promises to turn on the generator if the power should go out.

8. Cheese, housemates, and friends arrive. Sauce and cheese applied to pizzas.

9. Enjoy the fruits of the group effort, flexibility, and innovation!!