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Research Abstract Phytolith evidence for early domesticated bananas in Cameroun supports a conclusion reached previously from a combination of botanical and linguistic evidence, name- ly that plantains reached West Africa, presumably from Southeast Asia, at an early period. Botanical evidence suggests that the plantains (AAB) are the most credible early domesticates and that their African center of diversi- ty is in the zone from southeastern Nigeria to Gabon. The mechanism by which the plantain reached this region is much disputed. The paper will argue the following: Plantains arrived in West Africa earlier than 3000 B.P. • along with taro and water-yam. Cultivation of these crops made possible the effective exploitation of the dense equatorial rain-forest. The most prominent reconstructible term for plantain,

Bananas and Plantains in Africa: Re-interpreting the linguistic evidence