We're building a memory for African kitchens.
KEROMA is a heritage-modern recipe platform — a record of what African grandmothers, street vendors, and home cooks have always known, finally written down with the help of AI that knows the difference.
A short history.
2024
A hackathon prototype
Built at a hackathon. The AI did the recipe prose; the cultural context was wrong. We learned that heritage can't be generated — only retrieved.
2025
The library grows
A real recipe library, written by hand, from grandmothers and street vendors across the continent. 12 recipes, then 50, then 200.
2026
KEROMA
The brand. The full library, the AI that knows the why of each dish, the cooking companion that doesn't disappear at the jiko.
Now
The story continues
We're building toward a future where African kitchens are documented, not exoticised. Join us.
The four things we won't compromise on.
Heritage is old. We're not.
Recipes come from grandmothers. The interface should feel like 2026, not 1996.
Be honest about the AI.
We use it where it helps — never where it pretends.
A continent, not a country.
From Tunis to Cape Town, from Dakar to Mombasa. Different tables, same continent.
The hands, not the kitchen.
We celebrate the cook, not the stove. Recipes are stories, not instructions.
Help us write more down.
Every recipe we add is a small act of cultural preservation. If you cook — at home, in a restaurant, on a street corner — and have a recipe worth recording, we'd love to talk.
Send us a recipe