Ming'oko: Tanzanian vine (related to Dioscorea villosa) known as mtipu
Ming'oko: Tanzanian vine (related to Dioscorea villosa) known as mtipuLish Ranty (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lish_Ranty&action=edit&redlink=1) — Own work via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AMtipu_leaf.jpg)CC BY-SA 4.0
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Tanzania

Ming'oko

A wild root from Tanzania’s Makonde Plateau, eaten as food and widely traded on the plateau and in nearby lowlands.

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It is widely traded on the plateau and lowlands nearby. Eaten as food in the country, Ming'oko has been compared to carrot by Alexander Kesse, a German historian and scholar, who used both to analyse how people often ignore their ethnicity and culture, in this sense, calling Ming'oko as root whereas carrot is likewise.

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