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Bkayyy:
Apart from what you listed, what else were Yorubas eating before colonialism?

Here is a document from 1890 quoted in a research journal.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4111421
What you have there is not exhaustive. These things are taught in Yoruba classes
If you want more information, go to archaeology department, UI, ask for the Ethnobotanical archaeology, they will even give you materials on even when these indigenous plants were domesticated. Some folks had their PhD in Ethnobotanical Archaeology, they teach and practice on the field. They are hired as consultants in EIA projects.
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Tinububalls:
Please name 5 indigenous crops/food of Africa?

Yam,
Palm oil/palm tree
Ewedu
Egusi
Coffee

Bkayyy:
Apart from what you listed, what else were Yorubas eating before colonialism?

Amala
Pounded yam
Eko/agidi
Tuwo(corn)

aribisala0:
Amala
Pounded yam
Eko/agidi
Tuwo(corn)

And you didn't hear when your brother said that corn/maize came from Brazil.
So in other words, you were eating yam (pounded yam and Amala) with ewedu day in day out

Lol, you guys are funny.

Sctests:
That's a lie, if it was indigenous to Igboland, we would have borrowed words for it. Akpu is indigenous to Igboland, yoruba borrowed the word fufu from other West Africans who were neighbours to yorubaland. Do your research.

Is Mkpurumiri indigenous to Igboland? Don't you have a name for it?

Bkayyy:
Apart from what you listed, what else were Yorubas eating before colonialism?

Yam,Millet,Rice, Beans, Coco Yam,Egusi,plantain

Bkayyy:
And you didn't hear when your brother said that corn/maize came from Brazil.
So in other words, you were eating yam (pounded yam and Amala) with ewedu day in day out

Lol, you guys are funny.

Who is my brother? Why are you so tribal in your thinking?
I am not hear on behalf of any one and have no brother here?

That is the problem with you folk and your paranoid Umunna psychology


We know that Maize has been around before white people went to the Americas


Even Jesus is said to have eaten maize on the Sabbath in the bible

Pharaoh's dream which Joseph interpreted contained Maize

Bkayyy:
And you didn't hear when your brother said that corn/maize came from Brazil.
So in other words, you were eating yam (pounded yam and Amala) with ewedu day in day out

Lol, you guys are funny.

Plantains, Akara/beans, cocoyam nko? They are not foods?

christistruth01:
Yam,Millet,Rice, Beans, Cocoa Yam,Egusi

Wait a minute, you people eat cocoa as food?
Like you boil or roast it?

Bkayyy:
Wait a minute, you people eat cocoa as food?
Like you boil or roast it?

Cocoa was also brought from Brazil it s not indigenous

Bkayyy:
Wait a minute, you people eat cocoa as food?
Like you boil or roast it?

Cocoyam, not cocoa.

aribisala0:
Cocoa was also brought from Brazil it s not indigenous

In this case, I don't want to know whether it is indigenous or not, I just want to know how they eat cocoa as food.

Bkayyy:
In this case, I don't want to know whether it is indigenous or not, I just want to know how they eat cocoa as food.

What did you eat before Ajayi Crowther? Akpu is the most important Ibo food today. What did you eat before the Bishop?

Guestlander:
What did you eat before Ajayi Crowther? Akpu is the most important Ibo food today. What did you eat before the Bishop?

Akpu is the most Precious food of our Igbo brethren you mean

If you dare touch some People's Akpu it could land you in Hospital

GBOKASINCHA:
mtssew igbos are part and parcel of lagos even the tinubu dynasty get igbos for there u cant remove them... more are still coming...very soon we will determine who governs that state

I don't believe you are an IGBO.... Logically you are saying LAGOS is your OBODOYINBO right ?.. instead of you to go and COLONISE DELTA STATE and RIVERS that you are CLOSE TO.... Do You know how many bridge you are going to cross before getting to ONITSHA BRIDGE...
Na people like you no get anything.... Something wey una no fit TALK 4 NORTH....
Lagos na no MAN'S LAND... But una no fit talk am IN AN ELECTION CAMPAIGN and see REACTIONS..

christistruth01:
Akpu is the most Precious food of our Igbo brethren you mean

Exactly. And I wonder what they ate before it came to Iboland.

Guestlander:
What did you eat before Ajayi Crowther?

Exactly what we are eating today.

Ụgba, Ụkpaka, Cocoyams (pounded and boiled), Yam (we even have festivals for that one), assorted soups (Okazi, Nsala, ọgbọnọ, ọkwụrụ aka okro, ọha etc), achịcha, ụkwa, nkoro, etc

Should I continue?

Bkayyy:
Exactly what we are eating today.

Ụgba, Ụkpaka, Cocoyams (pounded and boiled), Yam (we even have festivals for that one, assorted soups (Okazi, Nsala, ọgbọnọ, ọkwụrụ aka okro, ọha etc), achịcha, ụkwa, nkoro, etc

Should I continue?

I bet you will cause a riot if you don't have akpu in two days.

duro4chang:
He did not use any abusive word. Very simple and polite.

Makes a nice change to what some people come up with on this forum once the topic is about Ndigbo or a Igbo person!

Guestlander:
I bet you will cause a riot if you don't have akpu in two days.

Actually most people prefer pounded yam or Cocoyam (utara ede)

What they serve to guests as oji in riverine communities of Igboland is pounded yam and Nsala.

Bkayyy:
Actually most people prefer pounded yam or Cocoyam (utara ede)

What they serve to guests as oji in Ohaji is pounded yam and Nsala.

It's all good bro. God bless all the people who brought good things to Africa.

aribisala0:
Who is my brother? Why are you so tribal in your thinking?
I am not hear on behalf of any one and have no brother here?

That is the problem with you folk and your paranoid Umunna psychology


We know that Maize has been around before white people went to the Americas


Even Jesus is said to have eaten maize on the Sabbath in the bible

Pharaoh's dream which Joseph interpreted contained Maize

It was Wheat that was interpreted as Corn

Guestlander:
It's all good bro. God bless all people who brought good things to Africa.

That is why no matter how much they Curse Lord Lugard and the British nothing do them

christistruth01:
That is why no matter how much they Curse Lord Lugard and the British nothing do them

I am not talking about those people. People like Ajayi Crowther, Mary Slessor and many others in their own little ways. Not colonizers.

Bkayyy:
In this case, I don't want to know whether it is indigenous or not, I just want to know how they eat cocoa as food.

Did I say they eat cocoa as food?

Bkayyy:
Exactly what we are eating today.

Ụgba, Ụkpaka, Cocoyams (pounded and boiled), Yam (we even have festivals for that one), assorted soups (Okazi, Nsala, ọgbọnọ, ọkwụrụ aka okro, ọha etc), achịcha, ụkwa, nkoro, etc

Should I continue?

You still ran into a food Crisis in the East because of your huge Population and that was when Bishop Ajayi Crowther brought you Cassava

And you know how much you love Your Akpu

christistruth01:
It was Wheat that was interpreted as Corn

That is an opinion does not make it true

What was the "WORD" that was interpreted .

Do you have evidence?
In other words you are saying the word "CORN " appeared in the English language long before any English person ever set eyes on corn

christistruth01:
You still ran into a food Crisis because of your huge Population and that was when Bishop Ajayi Crowther brought you Cassava

And you know how you love Your Akpu

The returnees from Brazil came with the knowledge of how to properly process cassava into edible food. That is how it caught on. There wasn't any huge population or food crisis in Yorubaland.