Samuel Quarshie orginated from Ghana and he is now settled in Yamaguchi with his wife and kids. They run a restaurant in Yamaguchi city serving authentic Ghana food including cassava. He is very friendly and quite a chatty person. I was brought to his restaurant to try the cassava dish in his restaurant called Bao Bab for the first time. The second time I went to see him to tell him about the cassava project we are doing in YCAM. He was very excited about our attempt to grow cassava in Yamaguchi and he enthusiastically shared his experience of growing exotic plants in Japan. He went on to talk about his farmer father, urban farming, African farmer abused by the modern agriculture system etc. He lamented that Cassava is something very significant for him.