Selassie Atadika is a Ghanaian chef and the founder of Midunu in Accra, widely regarded as a leading voice of New African cuisine. Born in Ghana and raised in the United States after her family relocated following the 1981 coup, she returned home in 2014 to establish Midunu as a nomadic dining enterprise celebrating the continent’s indigenous ingredients, traditional preservation techniques, and often-overlooked 

culinary heritage. Her path to the kitchen was shaped by more than a decade of humanitarian work with the United Nations across over forty countries, an experience that deepened her conviction that food is identity, inheritance, and livelihood. At Midunu, intimate tasting menus draw on ancient grains, local greens, and traditional proteins, 

served in a format designed around storytelling and shared experience. Her work extends to the award-winning Midunu Chocolates, which features Ghanaian cocoa at its base, and the Midunu Institute, dedicated to documenting and preserving Africa’s culinary heritage. A TIME Earth Award honoree and Basque Culinary World Prize finalist, and received La Liste’s New Destination Champion Award for Africa.