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Table 18. Summary <strong>of</strong> the non-cane uses <strong>of</strong> African rattans (see Appendix 1 for further<br />

elaboration)<br />

Species Use Region<br />

Calamus deërratus Palm heart eaten<br />

Young shoots roasted and eaten<br />

Grilled leaves macerated and made into tea to<br />

promote weight loss and to treat oedema caused<br />

vitamin deficiencies<br />

Ash from burned roots used as salt substitute<br />

Sheath twisted and used to clean cooking pans<br />

Sheath twisted to make rope<br />

224<br />

Ghana, Sierra Leone<br />

Ghana<br />

Senegal<br />

Guinea-Bissau<br />

Ghana<br />

Nigeria<br />

Eremospatha cabrae Base <strong>of</strong> leaf sheath used as a chewstick DR Congo<br />

E. haullevilleana Palm heart eaten<br />

Fruits used for decoration<br />

Acanthophylls used as fish hooks<br />

Sap used as arbortifacient<br />

Congo<br />

DR Congo<br />

DR Congo<br />

DR Congo<br />

E. macrocarpa Powdered root used to treat syphilis Ghana, Nigeria<br />

E. wendlandiana Palm heart eaten<br />

Congo<br />

Base <strong>of</strong> leaf sheath used as a chewstick Cameroon<br />

Laccosperma laeve Roasted roots eaten to improve virility Central African Republic<br />

L. opacum Sap potable & drunk by forest workers<br />

Gabon<br />

Palm heart eaten<br />

Congo<br />

L. robustum Palm heart eaten<br />

Cameroon to Gabon<br />

Young leaves eaten in stews<br />

Equatorial Guinea<br />

L. secundiflorum Palm heart eaten<br />

Throughout its range<br />

Young shoots eaten<br />

Throughout its range<br />

Sap potable & drunk by forest workers<br />

Senegal, Gabon<br />

Tea from young shoots used as vermifuge Ghana, Gabon<br />

Sap, when mixed with other species, used to<br />

treat dysentary<br />

DR Congo<br />

Oncocalamus tuleyi Base <strong>of</strong> leaf sheath used as a chewstick Cameroon<br />

O. wrightianus Base <strong>of</strong> leaf sheath used as a chewstick Nigeria<br />

6.3. A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND HISTORY IN SUB-<br />

SAHARAN AFRICA<br />

The Niger-Congo family <strong>of</strong> languages dominates the forested zone <strong>of</strong> sub-Saharan<br />

Africa. From Sénégal to Lake Chad a number <strong>of</strong> distantly related languages within<br />

this language family occur (Oliver and Fage, 1975; Iliffe, 1995; Grimes, 1996). These<br />

non-Bantu languages are differentiated from one another to such an extent that<br />

through the study <strong>of</strong> glottochronology, most linguists postulate that they have been<br />

growing apart for around 8,000 years; at least as long as their speakers have been<br />

sedentary agriculturists (Oliver and Fage, 1975; Iliffe, 1995).<br />

In contrast, almost all <strong>of</strong> the peoples south <strong>of</strong> a line drawn from the Cross River area<br />

<strong>of</strong> SE Nigeria to southern Somalia speak more closely related languages (Vansina,

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