Challenge Idea: Rice and Beans for Each Cuisine?

Rice and beans are a blank, inexpensive, and nutritious canvas for the flavors of almost every cuisine, since a regional cuisine is more about herbs, spices, sauces, etc. than the actual ingredients*. A challenge could be to come up with recipes for a rice-and-bean dish that is based of different cuisines. Here are my rules-

• keep it vegetarian (or, if you have to include meat/fish, provide a veggie substitute idea)

• if it's not just "add/use X beans and spices Y and Z," (or other similarly simple ideas) could you provide a full recipe?

• try to expand on why your comment reflects a certain cuisine?

*sure, the "food" ingredients do matter too, and if you want to include specific additional ingredients, great! My point here was that one can still create a dish at least reminiscent of a specific cuisine with herbs, spices, and sauces, even if other regional ingredients are left out.

I hope this is a fun challenge that will highlight the uniqueness of each cuisine.

tl;dr: provide recipes for rice and beans for different cuisines