Call it peanut, groundnut or a monkey nut ... Says Mutheu. When and how to plant groundnuts Just like maize, groundnut is an early season crop hence it must be grown at the onset of rains.

The first reliable record is from the 1650s, by G. A. Cavazzi da Montecuccolo in what is now Congo or Angola. By the late 1600s writers noted three kinds of undergound beans on the Gold Coast. One of ...

I grow the Red Valentia, which is tastier, and Manipita, which is the bigger groundnut variety ... years gained insight into use and benefits of peanut butterand upon returning to Kenya, he ...

A boiled peanut ... the plant with them to Africa. There, it quickly became a staple ingredient in a number of cuisines due to its similarity to an indigenous ingredient, the Bambara groundnut.