Children at the festival bought roasted groundnuts from a small stall.

The forager carefully dug up a cluster of groundnut tubers from beneath the vines, remembering that Apios americana's fragrant brownish flowers meant the tubers were ripe.

Bambara groundnuts are a nutritious, drought-tolerant legume that many smallholder farmers rely on.

Farmers in the Sahel often cultivate Bambara groundnut because it thrives in poor soils and provides a reliable protein source.