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Decolonising: African diet in 1500 BC

Common bananas, chickens, Chinese rice & corn all came from southeast Asia, China & the Americas respectively. They arrived in Africa around the same time of the European colonisation of Africa in the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries AD but we definitely had our alternative fruits & cereals that we either planted or found in the wild on the continent. 

This is a list of foods Africans are said to have eaten in 1500 BC:

• Fish 
• Cattle & milk 
• Fonio & black fonio (A type of rice)
• Guinea rice 
• Yam 
• Ensete & noog (i. e. Ethiopian banana & niger seeds)
• Teff (a grain/cereal of Ethiopia)
• Groundnuts 
• Sorghum 
• Pearl/Bulrush millet 
• Finger millet 


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