African tubers are a staple in several traditional diets and have recently gained attention for their health benefits, ...

In major yam-producing areas such as West Africa and the Caribbean, the tuber is traditionally grown using sticks as scaffolds for vine growth, which are traditionally cut from the forest ...

As evidence, the message includes an image of heaps of charred and smoking yams, a type of edible tuber eaten across West Africa. The Fulani are a widely dispersed group of mainly Muslim cattle ...