The Small Worker That Breaks the Tough Green Wall: What Our Bodies Know About Cellulase
The Thing That Lives Inside the Green Leaf
My people, let me tell you something that the elders in our villages have always known in their bones, even when they did not have the big words for it. You see, when you take a piece of cassava leaf, or you bite into the garden egg, or you chew the kontomire that your mother has cooked for the Sunday meal, there is something very small, something too tiny for the eye, that must do the work of opening that leaf for your body. (more…)