Caterpillar ice-cream in Cape Town: the cafe showcasing African flavours

‘Some people come with this idea that black people shouldn’t be able to do this kind of thing.’ Tapiwa Guzha in his parlour, Tapi Tapi, in Observatory, Cape Town. Photograph: Sarah Johnson/The Guardian

Caterpillars, dried fish and clay are not what you would expect to find in ice-cream, but one Cape Town cafe with a mission to celebrate African foods and culture has used all three as ingredients in its frozen desserts.

“Handcrafted, authentic African ice-cream,” reads a sign at the entrance to Tapi Tapi. Inside, the counter is filled with ice-creams in various shades of beige and brown. They look underwhelming, but the blackboard listing the flavours suggests differently.