Originally Posted by mhnadel

I haven't ever seen street food in West Africa, though there are cheap informal stands selling cooked food in many markets.

The East and South do better:

The night market on Zanzibar has good grilled octopus.

You can sometimes get good snack type things like samosas at bus stations.

There used to be and possibly still is a really good shwarma stand outside the large supermarket in Lusaka, Zambia.

But the person who criticized South African street food must not have spent time around Durban. I love bunny chow (hollowed out bread, filled with some sort of curry.) A half veggie bunny is an excellent road meal.