Waakye is a special food from Ghana, a country in West Africa.

It's made with rice and beans and has a unique color because it's cooked with sorghum leaves. These leaves make the rice look reddish-brown and give it a special taste.

If people can't find sorghum leaves, they sometimes use bicarbonate soda to get the color.

Waakye started in the northern part of Ghana. Its name comes from the Hausa language, where "waake" means beans and "ayyo" means rice.

This shows that waakye is a mix of rice and beans. It's a dish that brings people together, whether they are rich or poor, especially during big family meals, parties, or as a street food that many enjoy.

Waakye isn't just about rice and beans. People love to add many other things to it, like spaghetti, fried plantain, gari (which is like cassava flakes), boiled eggs, and different kinds of meat like fish, chicken, or beef.

There's also a spicy sauce and a pepper sauce called shito that many people like to put on top to make it even tastier.

Nowadays, waakye is not just eaten in Ghana. People from Ghana have taken it to other countries, and now you can find waakye in restaurants and festivals all over the world.

People have also come up with new ways to make waakye so that everyone can enjoy it, no matter what kind of food they like to eat.