Among the most important grasses are cereal grains, like this one seen here that's sometimes made into meal
... are 
sometimes used in the same ways as true cerealsground into flour or used in... [DOC] [TLE] Introduction | Lost Crops of Africa: Volume I: Grains | The National ... [PAR] All in all, Africa has more than 2000 native grains and fruits--"lost" species due for 
... Fonio (acha), probably the oldest African cereal and sometimes called "hungry 
rice.