Janine with her Jiko (Charcoal) Stove

Janine is a Professor of Law at the University of Free States in the Congo. She grew up in Cameroon, a central African country where they speak French, just as they speak it in the Congo. But Janine speaks English, too. This is the jiko stove she keeps on her back porch for cooking. The coal goes in the bottom and pots on top cook all types of food. Some people even bake cakes on their jikos!! The put the cake pan with batter inside a large pan and then put a lid on it, to capture the heat and bake the cake, or even bread. Not many people in Africa have stove with burners on top and an oven underneath.