Margaret L. Armstrong - Roots chap 3, p.9 lyrics

Already the wives were stretching their staple meals of couscous and rice with the tasteless seeds of bamboo cane and with thea bad-tasting dried leaves of the baobab tree. The baobab tree refered to in this pa**age is found in the Savannas of Afric and India, mostly around rhe equator. They can grow up to 25 meters tall and live for thousands of years. www.gambia.org.