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Where the wild food grows

Posted on June 28th, 2009 in Africa, Cameroon by robjkentjr

Over the years of living abroad, Rasa and I have learned not to ask what we are eating and where it comes from.  But I could not resist running these pictures, shedding some light on where all that fine African cuisine comes from.
Of course you have the world staple of maize (corn), which was mostly grown in southern Cameroon.
As we moved north, the staple crop changed to sorghum.  The main way of eating this was to mash it up and serve as a sticky paste like achu.
I had to include a picture of pork in the Muslim north.  When faced with starvation, I guess people really will eat anything.
Fish made up a major part of the diet anywhere there was a body of water.  Here are some elaborate fish nets.
Then there is the traditional way of catching them with stick and line.
A lot of the crops are dried out along side the road.  This is mostly to preserve them but the road is used because there are not many other flat dry places to do it.
This lady was laying out okra and some basil leaves.  Makes a great stew for your achu.
This is it for the random pictures.  The next blog will be about our not so near-death experience with a ‘lion’ in the national park.

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Tags: Africa, Cameroon, eating, experience, fish, food, national park, park, photo, picture, pork, Rasa, tradition, water

From field to market

Posted on June 14th, 2009 in Africa, Cameroon by robjkentjr

This week’s pictures are actually about the transportation of food from the field to the market.  As I was looking for shots, I started to see some pretty funny scenes with this topic.
I though this was a great example of a road being constructed.  They never close it completely off but always keep one half open.
We thought the trailer was going to hit us as we drove by.  From the looks of the top, the whole left side is smashed in, slightly throwing the wheel alignment off.
This bridge is in sorry shape.  There must have been several cases of cars going over the sides judging by the absence of guard rails.
Here is another bridge but this one keeps smashing up the tops of people’s cars.
Make a quick turn and this load would surely spill.  Notice the bike with chickens on the right.
I have never seen this before but the goats seemed to enjoy their ride.
Here are the ladies pushing the day’s pickings in to town, which is only another 10km away.
The road transportation we saw was mostly localized and it seems that the long distance stuff went out on the river to the south.  Next week will be about gathering the crops.

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Tags: Cameroon, car, food, funny, photo, picture, pretty, river
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