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Festival des Mets Locaux de Koudougou in Koudougou
A four-day food fair on Koudougou's Place de la Nation built around farmers, processors and cooks rather than passing vendors. Expect exhibition-and-sales stalls, cooking demonstrations, a traditional-dish competition and evening music, all organized around turning local agricultural products into visible commerce. The seventh edition framed itself around economic opportunity as much as taste, with young people trained in basic local cuisine alongside public tastings.
Place de la Nation in Koudougou fills with cooking fires, market stalls and long communal tables each March, turning the town square into a working kitchen rather than a simple food fair.