Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A plate of fufu, a meal common in West Africa. Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images West African cuisine is known for ...

Sweet potatoes are a revered staple for most important meals in African American life. No plate of soul food is complete without the buttery liquid from candied sweet potatoes flowing into the juice ...

IBADAN, Nigeria Aug 9 (Reuters) - Stacks of hairy yams line a market in Ibadan, where traders haggle over quality and price before loading them into cars for the last mile to Nigerian consumers.

Nadia Radzman receives funding from Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund for her project on the African yam bean. She is a research associate at the ...

Companies are exploring the potential of genetic engineering to boost the nutritional content, productivity and climatic adaptability of so-called orphan crops in the continent. Scientists are using ...

November means turkey, mashed potatoes and bright orange candied yams or, depending on who you ask, candied sweet potatoes. While some may use sweet potato and yam interchangeably, botanically ...

Many people in the United States use the terms “sweet potato” and “yam” interchangeably. Both are tubers but the similarities end there; yams and sweet potatoes are not the same vegetables. What is ...