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Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000
James C. McCann
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| #2742764 in Books | Harvard University Press | 2005-03-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.05 x5.86 x8.58l, | File type: PDF | 304 pages | ||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Corny title but more than just a kernel of interest|By Bob Newman|Before 1492 "and all that", African farmers grew a variety of crops, but certainly not maize or corn, as it is often called in North America. Very early on, during the Columbian exchange, maize came to Africa. It arrived from several different directions, as is evident in the names given by Africans to their ne||Maize and Grace shows how a New World crop contributed to the emergence of modern-day Africa. Some parts of Africa now have higher maize consumption per capita than Mexico and Guatemala, where the crop originated...Rather than describing sweeping histor
Sometime around 1500 A.D., an African farmer planted a maize seed imported from the New World. That act set in motion the remarkable saga of one of the world's most influential crops--one that would transform the future of Africa and of the Atlantic world. Africa's experience with maize is distinctive but also instructive from a global perspective: experts predict that by 2020 maize will become the world's most cultivated crop.
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