African Food History, Art, and Spirituality

15 Fear of Emotional Intimacy African Proverbs. Fear of emotional intimacy African proverbs teach if the inner self is neglected the outer self creates chaos where emotional intimacy is feared. Fear of sharing a close emotional intimacy. Emotional intimacy makes us feel vulnerable and developing emotional intimacy and maintaining intimacy is uncharted territory creating great emotional distress, the exact opposite of what we truly want in our lives, to be loved deeply from the inside out. The fear of sharing a close emotional intimacy because of childhood or adulthood trauma, a painful breakup, divorce, death, abandonment or rejection may makes us afraid to fall in love, afraid of emotional intimacy. This fear is so intense that we find it difficult, sometimes impossible, to form and maintain loving relationships. 15 Fear of sharing a close emotional intimacy African Proverbs A fall does not hurt those who fly low. No flies get into a shut mouth. Whatever the tree, so is the

Egypt's Canal Sugar has the world’s largest Sugar Silo used for housing processed sugar beets and sugar cane.  Doughnuts made from sugar beets  Sugar comes from sugar beets and sugar cane plants. Egypt produces around 2.5 million tones of sugar annually with the Canal Sugar Company alone producing 900,000 tons annually with the largest sugar silo in the world with a storage capacity of about 417,000 tons. A sugar silo is a structure for housing bulk products from the manufacturing of sugar beets and sugar cane. The Canal Sugar has the world’s largest Sugar Silo with a diameter of 406 feet, a depth of 213 feet, and a height of 131 feet which is about 3/4 times as wide as The Washington Monument and ¼ feet as tall. The enormous concrete Canal Sugar Company Sugar Silo looks exactly like a dome sugar canister but much larger. Around 77 percent of sugarcane is cultivated in Upper Egypt, this crop is considered a traditional crop cultivated since 1952. Main production areas for sugarcane

Breadfruit fries are easy to make. Breadfruit taste similar to potatoes and breadfruit fries are easy to make. Just like the banana and plantain the breadfruit is eaten ripe as a fruit or green as a vegetable. Breadfruits are edible large size fruit yellow green in color, a very popular recipe ingredient. In the green stage breadfruit is hard and the interior is white, starchy, coarse and hard. When fully ripe, the fruit is somewhat soft, the interior is a creamy yellow color and smells sweet.  Cooking with breadfruit sounds exotic because breadfruit does not look like your typical supermarket fruit. Breadfruit is cooked by baking, steaming, frying, dried and ground into flour.  The steamed fruit is sometimes sliced, rolled in flour and fried in deep fat in Ghana. In Uganda, breadfruit stew is made by boiling green chunks of breadfruit in milk and water until soft, then add onions, garlic, hot peppers, and spices. Breadfruits are edible large cantaloupe size fruit yellow green in col

French is the official language of the Republic of Congo, in Kikongo the name of this African country favorite dish is named Pondu, in French it is named feuille de manioc, in English it is known as cassava leaf stew. Congolese cooks combine a mixture of mushrooms, tomatoes, onions, pumkin, palm-oil and herbs, other fresh vegetables such as cassava leaves, fish, bush-meat and goat-meat eaten with a starchy dish called fufu. Farming Cassava Leaves Fufu is rolled into golf ball-sized balls, an indentation is made with the right finger and then dipped into a soup, sauce or stew in order to soak-up the flavor . Cassava is known by many names depending on where you live on this planet; the most common names for cassava are manioc, yucca, yuca, mandioca, and tapioca. Cassava originated from tropical America and cassava was first introduced into Africa in the Congo Basin by the Portuguese around 1558. Africans eat around 176 pounds or 80 kilograms of cassava per year per person. It is e

 Senegambia Graves and Megalithic Stone Circles The Senegambia burial mounds stone circles are located between the River Gambia and the River Senegal in the Western African countries of Guinea, Senegal and The Gambia. The Senegambia stone circles are a setting for ceremony and rituals, grave markers, places of burial, and a sacred place of worship and mourning. Wassu in Guinea The Wassu and Kerbatch grave sites in The Gambia and Guinea and the Wanar and Sine Ngayene burial mounds in Senegal contain over 1,000 stone circles and ancient human burial mounds spaced over an area of 62 miles wide and 217 miles in length. In all, there are 1,102 carved stones on all the stone circles of Senegambia burial sites.  The Sine Ngayene grave complex of Senegal is the largest site with 52 circles of stones. The next largest is Senegal's Wanar grave complex with 21 circles of stones, third is the Wassu complex located in Guinea consists of 11 circles and lastly The Kerbatch complex located in the