₦airaland Forum

TheEnygma:
-It can be harvested within 3 months and replanted again unlike Yam that grows annually.

kannex:
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_

BritishAirways:
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.



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.

tchidi066:
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.

illicit:
It was imported, same as cacao


We had yam and cocoyam

siofra:
Pounded yam nko?

kannex:
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_

gregyboy:
Most tribe didnt eat pounded yam, they mostly consumed platain with soup or ate the yam boiled


Before you can make pounded yam, you must first have pistol and mortal which wasnt really available then...

So how did all these tribe claiming pounded yam pound

The truth is only the benins who were wood carvers could make pounded yam

Pounded yam and egusi is an edo food adopted by many Nigerians after the collapse of kingdom


https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3171994&ved=2ahUKEwjBqsrx9qryAhVwDmMBHd9TDNoQFnoECAQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3iE3TQG7pXFD2L-NMouiYv

I have written on this on Nairaland before now
Click the link and enlighten yourself

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

angiography:
@op
Do you know that even up to 1950's, food made from Cassava were not popular in rural Yoruba villages/towns. In fact, my father once told me that first person that are fufu in their village was called into a meeting and was labelled a lazy man. Pounded yam was the main stay. Fresh pounded yam, and fermented pounded yan

Depressed101:
the binis where not wood carvers they were bronze sculptors, ibos curved artifacts from wood,

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.

gregyboy:
Are you kidding me bro... Benin were skilled in both wood carvings and metal artworks along with clay carvings


You will have to go along way to prove the igbos were wood carvers hope you wont bring one igbo ukwu artwork as a refrence point...

Depressed101:
look if you want to talk history, don't talk to me with what you read and found on the internet .. I will have to take you to my home place, where I personally have a collection of historically artifacts including wood, and iron carvings of, masquerade masks, flute and music instruments some dating as far back as 200+ years ago..

kannex:
What i can say is that the history concerning casava is questionable because if you say they pound yam, cocoyam, during the Sixteen century this african never new how to carve wood or even up to the extend of carving mortal and pistol so how come the nigerian that was taken away by during the slave trade era came back to introduce this processing even when the brazilian and other that they claim this crop originated from never process garri or fufu. This is one question that i need asnwer to

Depressed101:
op I have always asked my self that question, most of the food we eat in nigeria today were not introduced to us until the 19th century.. Are food are greatly influenced by our colonial masters.. I asked my grandma same question years (blessed mother may her soul continue to rest in peace) she told me there was a cassava, but not the type we have now, that one was bitter and black when cooked, it contained alot of cyanide. She told me there was no eba or garri. Just black bitter fufu. Achicha, lucost beans,Yam and other nutritious local foods

Jamesbiodun:
no one can answer your question people just believe in in what they see online and does not question it.
Did Wikipedia knows cure for diabetes? Hell no but we have it here

gregyboy:
Most soups were vegetables untill the Portuguese brought melon seeds to the edos

Pineapple in edo is called whitemans fruit

They took many crops from different continent to united state and Europe most of the crops didnt grow there thats why they still stuck with their vegetables delicacy, [s]Asians were the continent God blessed with so many food crops most of the crops today were gotten from asia and taken to other continent[/s]

BritishAirways:
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.



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:
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_

gregyboy:
Most soups were vegetables untill the Portuguese brought melon seeds to the edos

Pineapple in edo is called whitemans fruit

They took many crops from different continent to united state and Europe most of the crops didnt grow there thats why they still stuck with their vegetables delicacy, Asians were the continent God blessed with so many food crops most of the crops today were gotten from asia and taken to other continent

cassidy1996:
same question have been asking. well for me , i believe cassava has been here before dey came

TheMan3:
I think there is garri in Brazil. Most potoguese slaves where taken to Brazil. So that could be the origin

kannex:
So na Portuguese bring afang too abi??