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This Taxonomic-Linguistic Study of Plantain in Africa presents a new and multidisciplinary approach to crop history. The two main components of the study concern the various aspects of the distribution of plantain (Musa spp. AAB) diversity and the scientific as well as ethnobotanical classification and nomenclature of the crop and its cultivars. The outcomes of these components are combined with historical, cultural, ecological, agronomic and economic information and integrated into a theory about the introduction, spread and diversification of plantain in the African continent. Recipient of the Klinger Book Award for 2000 of the Society for Economic Botany, http://www.econbot.org/editorial/awards.html
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