Veganism is a diet by choice. Practicing vegans in Nigeria are spreading awareness about the positive impact that the diet choice has on the environment through festivals, cooking demonstrations, and their social media content. Let’s learn about annual local vegan festivals, statistics behind vegetarianism and veganism, and even how World Vegan Day influences Nigeria and other countries worldwide.
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What Is the Purpose of the Naija Vegan Festival?
Food vendors and notable speakers in the vegan space spread the importance of world sustainability by choosing to become a vegan and eating a diet rich in plant-based foods like fruits, vegetables, beans, and grains. For more entertainment during the event, there’s also cooking demonstrations.
Other Vegan Festivals
There are other annual vegan festivals that are taking place throughout Nigeria to support the current vegan eaters and encourage more local and tourist individuals to practice veganism.
The Lagos Goes Vegan Conference took place in April 2019 with a total of 94 attendees which helped to sell out the event. Of the attendees present, 68 of them did not practice veganism like the other 26 vegans. This is showing that Nigeria is spreading its vegan influence around the country as some people are weighing their thoughts and options to possibly become vegan down the line.
The Vegfest Nigeria 2023 was a popular event on its second annual event with a third one coming up possibly in May 2024. Because of the United Nations saying that there is a state of emergency for food insecurity because of how animal agriculture is damaging the environment, they encouraged at this event to grow more sustainable crops as food resources.
Vegan and Vegetarian Statistics In Nigeria and Africa Overall
Just in the Nigerian country alone, there are only 0.2% of the people living there that are practicing vegetarians, which means that they do not eat meat, but they still eat dairy products. The vegan population in the Middle East and African areas that do not eat meat or dairy only account for about 6%. Nigeria is not much of a vegan-practicing country with popular meat dishes like egusi soup and spicy beef offals.
What Is World Vegan Day?
World Vegan Day is another celebration of veganism worldwide annually on every November 1st. Vegans and people considering becoming vegan alike can learn more about the sustainability of the practice while also celebrating the holiday by eating their favorite vegan dishes. The world holiday has been prominent for more than 30 years when a prior Chair of the Vegan Society in the United Kingdom implemented the holiday to commemorate the 50 years it has been since that society was founded.
With the founding of this national holiday being in the United Kingdom, it’s no wonder that this nation has the most vegans out of all other countries worldwide. The vegan population accounts for 6% of the United Kingdom’s total population. According to the World Population Review, there were more than 200,000 online searches for vegan restaurants in the United Kingdom alone.
Conclusion
Despite the vegan population not being that high in comparison to the United Kingdom’s vegan population, the diet is continuing to influence Nigerian locals so that eventually there will be more vegans in the future.
