The Russia-Ukraine war has ignited challenges for African food systems. However, available debates on the war mainly focus on economic and political implications, thus, living areas such as food systems out of the debate. This has often led to propositions of narrow and non-context-specific resilience strategies for the African food system. This chapter reflects on how the war is affecting the African food system. This is achieved through a review of primary and secondary literature on the war since February 2022. This is augmented with abstraction. The chapter shows that due to the war, African food system actors and activities face challenges in acquiring commodities required for effective operation due to the disturbance of the global supply chain by the war. Scarcities in farm inputs, food commodities, and crude oil needed for fuel, as well as ensuing inflation, have impaired operation across all the components of the food system from food production, and processing to distribution and consumption. The chapter recommends that the African system be independent and sovereign, and not heavily rely on commodities acquired abroad.