“People thought i was mad when i started farming cockroaches and now it earns me a good living,” Lusius Kawogo, a Tanzanian cockroach farmer.

Although the business could be lucrative, Mr Kawogo said that this type of farming is yet to be embraced by most Tanzanians.

But Mr Kawogo is not alone. Tanzanian Singer Saumu Hamisi has a strong passion for normalising eating nutritious cockroaches in regular meals. She told the BBC that the insect tested like a fish or white meat and that she added coconut oil to roast or fry them.

According to experts, cockroaches have a lot of nutritional values when farmed in the right way.

“Cockroaches are high in proteins, fat, vitamin B12 and zinc, which help with building immunity,” Nutritionist Scolastic Mlinga proved this.