I was just strolling round the internet and i decided to stop the strolling immediately when i get to wikipedia.com website so i was just reading a lot of history about diffrent people then i my mind just asked me to search casava, immediately i search for casava i started reading, after reading few lines of the article, i saw something that made me surprise and decided to stop reading further because i believe the history about casava in nigeria was a lie, according to wikipedia this is what i saw on Wikipedia website corcerning casava in nigeria.

Originally a crop of South America, it was introduced in to Nigeria's southern part during the period of slave trade proliferated by Portuguese explorers and colonizers in the sixteenth century. However, its importance to the country got a boost in the late nineteenth century when more formerly enslaved Nigerians returned to their homeland and introduced processing techniques. Over the years, it has become a major economic sustenance crop and it has attained the status of largest producer in the world with recorded production of 34 million tonnes and is a cash crop of great importance to the people of Nigeria.

To me i dont believe this history but if this history is true, answer this questions to prove that the history on casava in nigeria that is written on wikipedia website is true.

1. If casava was originally brough in to the southern part of nigeria by the Portuguese then what food was the southern part of nigeria eaten before the Portuguese arrived.

2. According to wikipedia, processing technique was only introduce to nigeria by formerly enslaved Nigerians who were returning to their home land which means that casava was just planted and was never being used to process garri or fufu, until the 19th century now my question is was the casava just planted in the southern part of nigeria without it been used or process to garri or fufu?.

3. wikipedia said that formerly enslaved Nigerians introduce the processing technique, how did this people came to know about this processing technique when garrri or fufu was not found or been sold in any north american countries.

4. If the processing technique was introduce in the 19th century, What was this people used in eating afang, oha, efo, egusi and other soup that that was been prepared by this people was it stone..

Please help me answer this questions to prove me wrong that the history concerning casava in nigeria is true according to wikipedia

https://www.0.freebasics.com/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassava_production_in_Nigeria?iorg_service_id_internal=1547440102204384%3BAfp_7UzuI5vH3XX_

It was imported, same as cacao


We had yam and cocoyam

Maybe we had a local variety that takes years to grow and doesn't get big.


Maybe they introduced a new specie

our people eat more of yams before cassava came into the limelight

The history is very true
My parents told me too

Lies

Pounded yam.

emmanuel1277:
The history is very true
My parents told me too

That history is untrue.
Cassava is an ancient crop native to Southern nigeria.
That's why you can see casava just sprouting anywhere without being cultivated

BritishAirways:

That history is untrue.
Cassava is an ancient crop native to Southern nigeria.
That's why you can see casava just sprouting anywhere without being cultivated

Not true because you say so or because you don't know? Cassava is native to South America countries.

pek:
Not true because you say so or because you don't know? Cassava is native to South America countries.

Well God bless cassava all the same

Well let me get serious. I want to explain something to you about Wikipedia. Have you ever noticed Wikipedia is cunning?;

Wikipedia tries not to give credits to Africa as the origin of some things. When it's hands are tied, it attaches such histories to other continents in conjunction with Africa. As in the case of YAM,
We all know yam is native to Africa but Wikipedia didn't give that credit to Africa rather it attached it to Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

They are native to Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Some yams are also invasive plants, often considered a "noxious weed", outside cultivated areas. Some 870 species of yams are known, and 95% of these crops are grown in Africa.

The above is culled from wiki . Can you notice what they did? Wikipedia is a historic tool which our children may end up referring to but it's unfortunate most of it's data are questionable.

kannex
You don't want to believe the story because it sounds strange to you right? Are you really searching for answers with an open mind? Well, FYI, cassava is a native to South America countries especially Bolivia and Colombia.

emmanuel1277:
The history is very true
My parents told me too

Ok i don hear please help to ask your parent what was her great great great great grandfather eating before the Portuguese arrived.

Just look at how they arguing and dragging cassava as if that would reduce the price of garri

Op... It's obvious you area JJc on the internet.

Due to the fact that Wikipedia is free on free basics , I literally do a lot of random researches there....

I researched on "cassava" a long time ago and I've always known that it wasn't originally from Nigeria (as you've said) but rather brought to us by the Portuguese from South America....
This should explain why most west communities found along modern day Nigeria all celebrate "the new Yam festival" but never celebrate the cassava festival because the crop didn't originate from here hence it was never part of our cultures.
There are other reasons why the crop became so important to us namely;
-Ability to grow and yeild no matter how poor the soil is.
-It can be harvested within 3 months and replanted again unlike Yam that grows annually.
- It provides a fast and easy and cheaper alternative to pounded yam.

God bless cassava all the same
When others food left me cassava stay with me

Omo

Cassava, Cocoa, Guava, Sugercane, Pawpaw and many of our fruits came from South America. They were brought to Nigeria by Portuguese explorers, missionaries and former Yoruba Slaves returning from Cuba, Brazil, Uruguay and Colombia. Cheers.

TheEnygma:
Op... It's obvious you area JJc on the internet.

Due to the fact that Wikipedia is free on free basics , I literally do a lot of random researches there....

I researched on "cassava" a long time ago and I've always known that it wasn't originally from Nigeria (as you've said) but rather brought to us by the Portuguese from South America....
This should explain why most west communities found along modern day Nigeria all celebrate "the new Yam festival" but never celebrate the cassava festival because the crop didn't originate from here hence it was never part of our cultures.
There are other reasons why the crop became so important to us namely;
-Ability to grow and yeild no matter how poor the soil is.
-It can be harvested within 3 months and replanted again unlike Yam that grows annually.
- It provides a fast and easy and cheaper alternative to pounded yam.

Very correct. And here are your other answers for questions 2-4:
2. It was planted as a source of food too but not processed as Nigerian fufu or garri. Recall that "whole boiling" was the earliest form of eating most tubbers such as yam, patotoes, cocoyam, wateryam and others, this includes cassava. These carbohydrate rich tubbers can be easily boiled with or without the back and enjoyed with an oily recipe.
3. Seriously they deserve the credit. Give it to them. They invented armories during the war that ensalved them so dont be surprised.
4. Mostly Yam. This also justifies why the Yam festival is such a big deal.

Freestainworld:
our people eat more of yams before cassava into the limelight

Yams are even better sef.

1. They ate beans, yam, cocoyams herbs/vegetables and some food crops that may have gone extinct and some I can't remember.

2. They probably boiled it and ate it like that or with oil.

3. I'm pretty sure you meant South American. Maybe you should research more on this.

4. Yams and cocoyams

pek:
kannex
You don't want to believe the story because it sounds strange to you right? Are you really searching for answers with an open mind? Well, FYI, cassava is a native to South America countries especially Bolivia and Colombia.

Yes i search for answer with an open mind

siofra:


1. They ate beans, yam, cocoyams herbs/vegetables and some food crops that may have gone extinct and some I can't remember.

2. They probably boiled it and ate it like that or with oil.

3. I'm pretty sure you meant South American. Maybe you should research more on this.

4. Yams and cocoyams

So what about our afang soup do u mean they will just cook afang soup and lick it?

kannex:


So what about our afang soup do u mean they will just cook afang soup and lick it?

Pounded yam nko?

Redman44:
Cassava, Cocoa, Guava, Sugercane, Pawpaw and many of our fruits came from South America. They were brought to Nigeria by Portuguese explorers, missionaries and former Yoruba Slaves returning from Cuba, Brazil, Uruguay and Colombia. Cheers.

My broda i hear but you never answer one very important question if wikipedia is saying that the processing technique started only when the formally enslave people that return back home which was 300 years after the Portuguese introduce the crop to nigeria, now how come this formally enslaved people came up with the processing technique even when in the whole of south america dont eat fufu or garri, now if you say the formally enslaved people were trained on how to process casava to fufu or garri, how come the same barzil, cuba etc or any country you may claim taugh us the processing technique not selling or even producing garri or fufu as at that time which was the 19th century.

Once u don answer dis questions then i go believe this history.
But for now Am still confuse

TheEnygma:
Op... It's obvious you area JJc on the internet.

Due to the fact that Wikipedia is free on free basics , I literally do a lot of random researches there....

I researched on "cassava" a long time ago and I've always known that it wasn't originally from Nigeria (as you've said) but rather brought to us by the Portuguese from South America....
This should explain why most west communities found along modern day Nigeria all celebrate "the new Yam festival" but never celebrate the cassava festival because the crop didn't originate from here hence it was never part of our cultures.
There are other reasons why the crop became so important to us namely;
-Ability to grow and yeild no matter how poor the soil is.
-It can be harvested within 3 months and replanted again unlike Yam that grows annually.
- It provides a fast and easy and cheaper alternative to pounded yam.

My broda i hear but you never answer one very important question if wikipedia is saying that the processing technique started only when the formally enslave people that return back home which was 300 years after the Portuguese introduce the crop to nigeria, now how come this formally enslaved people came up with the processing technique even when in the whole of south america dont eat fufu or garri, now if you say the formally enslaved people were trained on how to process casava to fufu or garri, how come the same barzil, cuba etc or any country you may claim taugh us the processing technique not selling or even producing garri or fufu as at that time which was the 19th century.

Once u answer this questions then i go believe this history, but for now i dey confuse.

kannex:


My broda i hear but you never answer one very important question if wikipedia is saying that the processing technique started only when the formally enslave people that return back home which was 300 years after the Portuguese introduce the crop to nigeria, now how come this formally enslaved people came up with the processing technique even when in the whole of south america dont eat fufu or garri, now if you say the formally enslaved people were trained on how to process casava to fufu or garri, how come the same barzil, cuba etc or any country you may claim taugh us the processing technique not selling or even producing garri or fufu as at that time which was the 19th century.

Once u answer this questions then i go believe this history, but for now i dey confuse.

You did give a very valid point , concerning why the south Americans never use the processed cassava products as much as we africans do today, that is the only fact I won't dispute, there's a possibility that Africans probably used the experience in making pounded yam and cocoyam fufu to make the cassava fufu.... So there's a high possibility that our ancestors already knew how to process fufu but that doesn't change the fact cassava wasn't an indigineous crop of Africa but rather from South America.
The thing is that west Africans found more use for it than the south Americans which is why it is more associated with us than them

For example, Pizza originally came from Italy but today Americans produce and consume more pizza 10x more than Italians.

My mum told me the same, she said cassava never originated from igbo land, it was more of cocoyam, yam and wateryam, that was what was used to eat soup and you know cocoyam has varieties, there are some that can be boiled and eaten, while there are some used to prepare soup like oha and bitterleaf soup, there is also the reddish type, then there are other tubers, like the one called "onah" in igbo, its yellowish and has this bitter taste. Also, i don't think achebe ever mentioned cassava in things fall apart, i am not sure.

kannex:


So what about our afang soup do u mean they will just cook afang soup and lick it?

Cocoyam can be pounded, so can yam and potatoes. There were numerous species of Cocoyam in those days which turn out well after pounding.

BritishAirways:

That history is untrue.
Cassava is an ancient crop native to Southern nigeria.
That's why you can see casava just sprouting anywhere without being cultivated

Wrong
Very wrong
Our fore fathers didn't eat cassava
They ate yams go and ask questions or read history

kannex:

Ok i don hear please help to ask your parent what was her great great great great grandfather eating before the Portuguese arrived.

So many other foods
Like yams and cocao yams for carbohydrate based swallows
Then every other thing normally

New Yam festivals...

Yam must have been very important.

emmanuel1277:

Wrong
Very wrong
Our fore fathers didn't eat cassava
They ate yams go and ask questions or read history

Well let me get serious. I want to explain something to you about Wikipedia. Have you ever noticed Wikipedia is cunning?;

Wikipedia tries not to give credits to Africa as the origin of some things. When it's hands are tied, it attaches such histories to other continents . As in the case of yam,
We all know yam is native to Africa but Wikipedia didn't give that credit to Africa rather it attached it to Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

They are native to Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Some yams are also invasive plants, often considered a "noxious weed", outside cultivated areas. Some 870 species of yams are known, and 95% of these crops are grown in Africa.

The above is culled from wiki . Can you notice what they did? Wikipedia is a historic tool which our children may end up referring to but it's unfortunate most of it's data are questionable.