Maize and grace Africa's encounter wit h a New World crop, 1500-2000 - McCann, James, 1950-; American Council of Learned Societies (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005)
Africa and the world ecology of maize -- Naming the stranger: maize' s journey to Africa -- Maize's invention in West Africa -- Seeds of sub version in two peasant empires -- How Africa's maize turned white -- Af rican maize, American rust -- Breeding SR-52: the politics of science a nd race in Southern Africa -- Maize and malaria -- Maize as metonym in Africa's new millennium -- Appendix: Tables.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-274) and index.
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Keywords: Corn -- Africa -- History