Sesame (semsem)

Illustration: Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

Sesame, called semsem by the Lango, was one of the crops and an important source of oil. Driberg recorded that sesame oil was mixed with food, and with ashes or red chalk to dress women’s hair. A woman’s tests as a housewife could include roasting sesame for her future mother-in-law.

Habitat

A crop of cultivated fields.