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Tag Archives: West Africa
More Adventures of Mungo Park, Who Describes Hunger Crops in the Western Sahel, 1797
Mungo Park routinely describes foods and crops – as well as cooking and serving methods – throughout his extensive travels in west Africa. His are amongst the most detailed sources on these topics for the late eighteenth and early nineteenth … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-Central, Africa-East, Africa-West, Food, Indigenous crops & medicinal plants
Tagged Africa, Bamboo, Black River, Ceratonia siliqua, Dadawa, food, Fruit, Gambia, Mungo Park, plants, Sahel, Seed, Senegal, Sudan, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa (Physician Travelers Series), Village, West Africa, West African
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Agriculture; Livestock; Indigenous Plants; Agroforestry – Links
FAO will be convening an International Conference on Forests for Food Security and Nutrition, that aims to: … increase understanding of the crucial role that forests, trees on farms and agroforestry systems can play in improving the food security and nutrition … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Agroforestry, Burundi, Colonialism, Egypt - Medieval, Food, Food Security, Indigenous crops & medicinal plants
Tagged Africa, Agriculture, Agroforestry, Climate Change Mitigation, Environment, FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization, Food security, Sahara, Shea butter, tropical agricultural research, West Africa, World Agroforestry Centre
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Cuisines and Crops of Africa, 18th Century: Food and Farming in Timbuktu
In about 1789, the merchant and voyager Abd Salam Shabeeny set out from his home city, the Moroccan port town of Tetuan (above picture), for Germany in order to procure items for use in his trans-Saharan caravan trade business. On the way he … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-North, Africa-West, African rice, Agriculture, Caravan routes, Colonialism, Cuisine, Egypt-Recent, Explorers & exploration, Food, History, History-Recent, Indigenous crops & medicinal plants, Livestock, Technology
Tagged Africa, Egypt, Gibraltar, Mali, Middle East, Morocco, Niger, North Africa, Tétouan, Tetuan, Timbuktu, West Africa
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City States in the Sahel: Pre-European Kingdoms of West Africa
With the current efforts of France to address the efforts of Islamists in northern Mali, I am revising and reposting this blog on Sahelian history. First posted in 2012. Introduction: Recent events in the West African Sahel by way … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-North, Africa-West, African rice, Arab traders, Caravan routes, Niger River, Sahel
Tagged Africa, African Sahel, Arabic language, City-state, East Africa, Egypt, Environment, european colonizers, Famine, Lake Chad, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Niger River, North Africa, politics, Sahara, Sahel, Swahili language, Timbuktu, UNICEF, United Nations, West Africa
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A Taste of 2012 – Top Posts Favor Colonial Era; Food; Ancient Egypt
2012 was an excellent year for blogging. Daily reads ranged between 200 and 300, with a few entries going over 500. Readers were most interested in posts that stress the colonial era of African history, together with wildlife, traditional farming … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-Central, Africa-General, Africa-West, Agriculture, Burundi, Caravan routes, Colonialism, Contract-Farming, David Livingstone, Egypt-Ancient, Ethnicity, Food, Hotel Club du Lac Tanganyika2, Indigenous crops & medicinal plants, Lake Tanganyika, Organic Gardenig, Research & Development, Stanley and Livingstone, Wildlife
Tagged Africa, Ancient Egypt, Egypt, Fenugreek, hotel club du lac tanganyika, Indian Ocean, North Africa, West Africa
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Cuisines and Crops of Africa – Imagining Cannibalism in the 19th Century and Now
It is a curious feature of cannibalism in Africa, that it is always practiced by another group – a group that is ‘just over the hill’ – and in that place. There, it is said, one finds such a practice. … Continue reading
Botanical Explorations in 19th C. Central Africa: Wild Yams
Prior to the introduction of bananas, plantains, sweet potatoes, cassava and beans, yams provided one of the basic daily foods in tropical areas of sub-Saharan Africa. As Baker explains here, in the 1860s, a variety of the ‘yam tribe’ were … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-Central, Colonialism, Explorers & exploration, Food, Indigenous crops & medicinal plants
Tagged Sudan, Uganda, West Africa, Yam
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