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So we come to the end of our study of the information about the food of the West African people, both of native Sudanic origin, and the Berber immigrants – information which we owe to Arabic authors who wrote from the early tenth century to the early sixteenth century. It can be seen that the information is fairly detailed and thorough, particularly on the basic produce of vegetable and animal origin from which foods and drinks were made, though it is unfortunate that beverages are only rarely described in medieval Arabic sources. Obviously, most of this information is of a somewhat fortuitous character; yet it allows us to see approximately what the food of the population of West Africa was, prior to the great changes which took place in the agricultural economy of these countries during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. These changes were partly a result of the new contacts between the Guinea coast and the countries of South-east Asia, partly of the evolution and progress of Por

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