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These are pictures I took from a yam far I visited during planting season earlier this year.
Centuries ago, yams used to be the most important crop in Nigeria and most of West Africa. Because the ability of yams to feed a population was overwhelming. Yams were big and heavy, one could harvest hundreds of them if your farm was big enough and the best part was one can store them and they'll last all through the year.
It usually didn't matter what was going on, a famine, drought, war or whatever. As long as you had hundreds of yams in storage your family was going to make it.
So many Nigerian and West African tribes even had festivals to celebrate yams, that's how important yams were. There are also many myths woven to explain how yams came about and it's always about gods/deities giving it to the tribes to help them with a superior crop so they never go hungry again.
This is what storage looks like:
These are what yams look like, these are the ones called Water yams and Coco yams:
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