Julia Gham is the Powerhouse of West African cuisine

Her spot near McCormick Place is the city’s only Cameroonian restaurant. Julia Gham was seven months pregnant, with a toddler and just $100 to her name in 2015 when the financing for her restaurant fell through. For ten years she’d had multiple jobs—slinging ice cream, working hotel gigs, driving a cab—preparing an ambitious business plan to open a spot specializing in the food of her native Cameroon.…