Slaves for Peanuts - An Epic Story of Plants, People, & Culture in West Africa

Jori Lewis

Jori Lewis is the author of Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History. Jori explores culture, history, environment, economic systems, religion, and slavery in its West African context, opening our eyes to the way the world really has worked & is working still. Jori is masterful story-teller, conveying the facts faithfully, but giving us an experience of the people & events that evokes the same connection and feelings of epic poems, like those of the griots/bards of West Africa tradition. Jori is an environmental journalist who splits her time between Senegal, West Africa, and Illinois, USA, and she is also a contributing editor with Adi Magazine, a literary magazine covering global politics.

Past/present religious/spiritual influences: Baptist, Muslim, Meditation, Buddhism, Non-affiliated

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Slaves for Peanuts - An Epic Story of Plants, People, & Culture in West Africa

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Full, uncut interview with Jori Lewis

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Even though Jori is sharing history and fact, Slaves for Peanuts reads more like a novel than it does most non-fiction. In fact, one could say that Jori almost takes on the mantle of the West African bards called griots.
A bit of the culinary, evolutionary, & economic history of the peanut in West Africa, and in the lives of Jori & Mark.

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