Guinea yams the botany, ethnobotany, use and possible future of yams in West Africa
- Economy Botany, 1(7), p.301-318, 1972 .
Of all the food crop plants of the tropics, few are as closely associated with a particular group of peole, or particular cultural area, as are yams with certain of the West African peolpes. Yams are grown and used in many other parts of the world are they so central a feature of day-to-day life.