On 25 November, the Pretoria office of the US department of agriculture (USDA) published a report on South Africa’s maize market. It highlighted the difficulty caused by the recent mid-summer ...

WHILE accepting the American origin of maize, the question of its existence in Europe before the days of Columbus has been revived by recent archæological finds in Yoruba territory. Goodwin (ref.

Some say they have not eaten unless they have had maize meal, which is known as nshima in Zambia, nsima in Malawi, sadza in Zimbabwe, papa or pap in South Africa and Lesotho, and ugali in Kenya.