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Livingston’s Adventures with Manioc [Cassava] in Southern Africa
Yesterday I had for lunch an African dish with fish and cassava [manioc] in a delicious sauce. This reminded me of the oft negative descriptions of the crop as being something less that wonderful; as written by David Livingston : The … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-General, Crop harvests, Cuisine, David Livingstone
Tagged Africa, Agriculture, Cassava, David Livingston, David Livingstone, Manioc
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Friday Funnies: Monkey-Business
While it is the human-like qualities of primates that attracts us to watch and enjoy them, it is the case that in rural Africa – at least the parts in which I’ve lived and travelled – they are simply considered … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-General, Chimpanzees, Explorers & exploration, Hotel Club du Lac Tanganyika2, Lake Tanganyika, Living here, Primates, Susan Savage-Rumbaugh
Tagged Africa, Bonobo, Burundi, Chimpanzee, chimps, Common chimpanzee, Congo, David Livingstone, enrichment activities, Jane Goodall, Lake Tanganyika, Primate, primate enrichment, primate pictures, primates, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Tanganyika, wildlife sanctuary
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Monkey Business – 19th. Century and Now
Monkeys and gorillas in the 19th century were – and continue to be – found throughout tropical and sub-tropical Africa. When colonial explorers began to encounter them, it was thought they might be somehow related to humans, and it was … Continue reading
Cuisines and Crops of Africa – The Lotus Eaters of Central Africa
Lotus plants of the species Nymphaea lotus L. were an important ingredient in African traditional cuisine. Found throughout tropical Africa and in the Nile Valley, their collection and processing for the table is reported by various colonial writers. The frustration, though, … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-General, Agriculture, Colonialism, Cuisine, Egypt-Ancient, European explorers, Explorers & exploration, Food, History-General, Indigenous crops & medicinal plants
Tagged Africa, Africa-General, David Livingstone, Egypt, Khedive, Nile, Royal Geographical Society, Sudan, Zambezi
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Livingstone Discovers South Carolina Rice in Southern Africa, c.1860
[First posted Nov. 2010, Revised 06 November 2011] The Portuguese had been trading in and marginally colonizing east-southern Africa since the 15th Century. When, two centuries later, the English decided to explore the region, small settlements of Portuguese and their Catholic … Continue reading