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  • While acknowledging that sub-Saharan Africa was the site of early food production, this paper evaluates the evidence that the production of some North-African Mediterranean and Asian food crops was introduced into West Africa by the little known Ibāḍiyya -the oldest of all Islamic sects- from Maghribian communities, possibly between the 8th and 16th centuries. In answering the question “how” or “by what process” Maghrib foods were diffused across the Sahara, the paper argues for the existence of Ibāḍī diasporas before the 10th century when Trans-Saharan commercial networks first began to be organized, thereby fueling important changes in the desert’s political economy (Catalogue African Studies Centre, Leiden).

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