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Scientists are coming to the conclusion that the Niger River Basin is the equivalent to the Fertile Crescent when it comes to plant/crop domestication.
Here's a couple of sites on the research paper:
(PDF) Yam genomics supports West Africa as a major cradle of crop domestication
Yam genomics supports West Africa as a major cradle of crop domestication
These are type of scientific papers that will help advance SSA people. Not the ramblings of idiot hoteps.
I wish they went more into and/or there were other papers on other domesticated crops within Africa.
E.g. African Palm Oil, Melegueta Pepper, Indigo, Ackee etc.
Here's a couple of sites on the research paper:
(PDF) Yam genomics supports West Africa as a major cradle of crop domestication
Yam genomics supports West Africa as a major cradle of crop domestication
While there has been progress in our understanding of the origin and history of agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa, a unified perspective is still lacking on where and how major crops were domesticated in the region. Here, we investigated the domestication of African yam (Dioscorea rotundata), a key crop in early African agriculture. Using whole-genome resequencing and statistical models, we show that cultivated yam was domesticated from a forest species. We infer that the expansion of African yam agriculture started in the Niger River basin. This result, along-side with the origins of African rice and pearl millet, supports the hypothesis that the vicinity of the Niger River was a major cradle of African agriculture.
One hypothesis about crop domestication in Africa suggests
an origin encompassing a large area from Senegal to Somalia (2).
This Sahel-wide hypothesis was mainly based on distributions of
wild and cultivated African cereals, such as pearl millet (Cenchrus
americanus), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), fonio (Digitaria exilis), and
African rice (Oryza glaberrima). Recent studies have challenged this
hypothesis and proposed a more restricted area of origin in the western
Sahel, near the Niger River basin. Pearl millet was domesticated in a
region corresponding today to northern Mali and Mauritania (5), and
African rice was also domesticated in Mali (6).
As for yams, more Northern origins than previously postulated
(2,24) were found for both pearl millet (5) and African rice (6). The
basin of the Niger River was presumably a hotspot of cultivation, as
several archaeological sites with remains of cultivated crops are
located in this region (25–28). Among the five crops of African origin
that are most produced in Africa today (yam, African rice, sorghum,
pearl millet, and cowpea; www.fao.org/faostat), four presumably orig-
inated in a restricted area: African yam expanded from the Niger
River basin (present study), African rice was domesticated in the re-
gion of the Inner Niger Delta in Mali (6), pearl millet in northern
Mali and Mauritania (5), while cowpea is posited to have originated
in northern Ghana (29). Together, these results greatly refine our un-
derstanding of West African crops domestication history. They help
identify a major cradle of domestication in West Africa, geograph-
ically localized around the Niger River (Fig.4), comparable to the
Fertile Crescent in the Near East.
These are type of scientific papers that will help advance SSA people. Not the ramblings of idiot hoteps.
I wish they went more into and/or there were other papers on other domesticated crops within Africa.
E.g. African Palm Oil, Melegueta Pepper, Indigo, Ackee etc.