TemplarLandry:
Ancestors. No doubt.

mrvitalis:

Which ancestors... Something Europeans brought to Africa

Most people have lost their original native foods

For igbos the only ones that remain are yam, akidi (fio fio) .... Cocoa yam, cassava, plantain, banana , orange , paw paw many foods were introduced by Europeans

Even rice

Pwettylinda:
God bless whoever discovered especially fufu
That shit is really smooth and fulfilling when you eat it with native or sweet Egwusi soup..

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In Africa (sub-Saharan Africa), the diffusion of cassava can be described as a self-spreading innovation. Cassava was introduced into Africa by Portuguese traders from Brazil in the 16th century (Okigbo, 1980). It was initially adopted as a famine-reserve crop. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (hereafter referred to as “the Congo”) where the crop was first introduced, millet, banana and yam were the traditional staples but farmers adopted cassava because it provided a more reliable source of food during drought, locust attack and during the hungry season 1. Although there was some local trade in cassava, production was mostly for home consumption and cassava was prepared in the simplest fashion, i.e. slicing and boiling (Jones, 1959).

TemplarLandry:
Caucasians brought us Cassava stems from Europe??

Wild populations of M. esculenta subspecies flabellifolia, shown to be the progenitor of domesticated cassava, are centered in west-central Brazil, where it was likely first domesticated no more than 10,000 years BP. Forms of the modern domesticated species can also be found growing in the wild in the south of Brazil. By 4600 BC, cassava pollen appears in the Gulf of Mexico lowlands, at the San Andrés archaeological site.The oldest direct evidence of cassava cultivation comes from a 1,400-year-old Maya site, Joya de Cerén, in El Salvador.

Cassava was introduced to Africa by Portuguese traders from Brazil in the 16th century. Around the same period, it was also introduced to Asia through Columbian Exchange by Portuguese and Spanish traders, planted in their colonies in Goa, Malacca, Eastern Indonesia, Timor and the Philippines. Maize and cassava are now important staple foods, replacing native African crops in places such as Tanzania

TemplarLandry:
Caucasians brought us Cassava stems from Europe??

nairalanda1:


The Portuguese to be more precise.



sauce

mrvitalis:

From South America, they took Irish potato from them brought cassava, cocoa yam, cocoa, sweet potatoes to Africa

All the above food came from the Americas

Rice came from far East Asia

The only indigenous food we have is
Yam, millet, and guinea corn, then some beans species igbos call ikidi

TemplarLandry:
Cassava is indigenous to Africa. Don't be deceived.

TemplarLandry:
Cassava is indigenous to Africa. Don't be deceived.

Pwettylinda:
God bless whoever discovered especially fufu
That shit is really smooth and fulfilling when you eat it with native or sweet Egwusi soup..

Please let's learn, know the man, woman or people??

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TemplarLandry:
Keep deceiving yourself with Google.

Pwettylinda:
God bless whoever discovered especially fufu
That shit is really smooth and fulfilling when you eat it with native or sweet Egwusi soup..

Please let's learn, know the man, woman or people??

Comment below