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Description:: An educational poster with pictures and text focused on how past people in the Banda area fed their families. It describes foods eaten in the past, the changes in foods eaten today, and how people in the past coped with food shortages. It is one of five posters prepared for a Banda community event held in 2014. Printed versions of the posters are housed in the Banda Cultural Centre, Ahenkro.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Location(s) Facet:: Banda
Subjects:: Community engagement; Milling; Poster
Subjects Facet:: Yams; Okra; Foodways; Cassava; Grinding; Sorghum; Corn; Pearl millet; Famines; Heritage
Creator:: Dr. Amanda L. Logan
Contributors:: Dr. Amanda L. Logan
Date searchable:: 1800-2009
Date searchable:: 2014-07
Genre:: Poster
Genre Facet:: Poster
Format:: Image
Language Facet:: English
Location(s):: Banda
Date Digitized:: 2014

Description:: A woman uses her hand to mix water into a flour made from ground dawadawa (Parkia biglobosa) beans and cassava flour held in a calabash bowl (chrɛgbɔɔ in Nafaanra). The moistened mixture will be steamed in a pot to make wehan. The cooked cake is eaten with a sauce made from shea oil, pepper, garden eggs and salt. This dish was prepared and served at the Olden Times Food Fair held at the Banda Cultural Centre with sponsorship from Amanda L. Logan. Ahenkro, 31 July, 2014.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects:: Dawadawa; Women's work
Subjects Facet:: Cassava; Gourd, calabash; Parkia biglobosa; Foodways; Food preparation; Food processing
Creator:: Amanda L. Logan
Date searchable:: 2014
Date searchable:: 2014-07-31
Genre Facet:: Digital image
Format:: Image
Source:: Dr. Amanda L. Logan
Location(s):: Ahenkro;8.165892, -2.354363
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Description:: A young cassava plant (dwa in Nafaanra) growing in an intercropped field. Manihot esculenta was introduced to Africa from the western hemipshere. It can be grown on soils that have been depleted of nutrients by other crops. Its cultivation requires little labor and its tubers, which provide a starchy staple, can be left in the ground for long periods. Other than as a source of calories, the tubers have little nutritional value. Cassava leaves, however, are used as vitamin- and nutrient-rich additions to soups. Lying on the ground around the cassava plant are dried maize stalks (bleju in Nafaanra) left behind from a previous planting cycle. Sabiye, 15 July, 2022.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Location(s) Facet:: Sabiye
Subjects Facet:: Farming; Agriculture; Intercropping; Cassava; Manihot; Corn
Creator:: Allison Balabuch
Date searchable:: 2022
Date searchable:: 2022-07-15
Genre Facet:: Digital image
Format:: Image
Source:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Location(s):: Sabiye;8.064602, -2.355298
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Description:: A cassava tuber (dwa in Nafaanra). Manihot esculenta was introduced to Africa from the western hemipshere. It can be grown on soils that have been depleted of nutrients by other crops. Its cultivation requires little labor and its tubers, which provide a starchy staple, can be left in the ground for long periods. Other than as a source of calories, the tubers have little nutritional value. Ahenkro, 12 July, 2022.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Location(s) Facet:: Ahenkro
Subjects Facet:: Agriculture; Cassava; Manihot
Creator:: Allison Balabuch
Date searchable:: 2022
Date searchable:: 2022-07-15
Genre Facet:: Digital image
Format:: Image
Source:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Location(s):: Ahenkro;8.163128, -2.356303
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Description:: A roadside agricultural field is planted with cassava (Manihot esculenta). The palmate leaves of the mature plants are visible growing among trees that were left standing when the intercropped field was first prepared. Regular weeding is needed to control spear grass, which can be seen growing at the edge of the field. Cassava is grown for its tubers, which can be harvested over a long period and store well when processed and dried. Its leaves are valued as an ingredient in soups. Planted early in the rainy season (April-May) the tubers mature in 6-18 months, depending on variety. Cassava tolerates poorer soils than yams (Dioscorea sp.), which are a preferred food in the area. Therefore, cassava it is grown in intercropped fields after yams are grown in the first year or two and before fields are left to fallow. Roadside near Nyire, August, 1994.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Date:: 1994-06
Location(s) Facet:: Nyire
Subjects:: Agricultural field; Manihot esculenta
Subjects Facet:: Agriculture; Farming; Cassava
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1994
Date searchable:: 1994-06
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Format:: Image
Location(s):: Nyire
Date Digitized:: 2020
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