Do Monkeys Really Love Eating Bananas? Bananas Take Centre Stage of Discourse on "E YIRI E WO!" Media Show This Monday

By: Israel Adeleke 

Apart from the regular green coloured bananas, not many people know that bananas come in other colours such as blue, pink, purple and red. 

Raising a catalogue of research questions, such as:How many species of bananas do you know? How many types of bananas have you eaten before? What dangers are inherent in the consumption of bananas in the large quantities? Do bananas forcefully made to ripe with the addition of chemicals pose serious health concerns to humans?

This week on "E YIRI E WO!" -a grassroots sociocultural surveillance knowledge-based media programme hosted by maverick practical broadcaster, Ambassador Olufemi Orunsola, the searchlight shifts to an indepth exploration of this global herbaceous fruit called bananas.

So, why are many people going bananas over bananas? What about it? From where exactly did bananas originate? 

A statement by the practical broadcast lecturer released on Sunday and sighted by OPEN TELEVISION NAIJA (OTN) News poses these lead posers with an additional question: Apart from eating bananas, what other uses can mankind put bananas to?

The statement further raised critical socio-research questions such as:"Apart from its benefit as a fruit snacks known to provide the body with quick energy and potassium, what other nutrients can mankind derive from bananas a fruit found in different parts of the world, especially tropical rain forests?

Orunsola further clarified that other issues related to bananas to be explored on the programme include:its typology, nutritional benefits, cultural myths about bananas, place of bananas in popular global culture, facts surrounding popular views on preference of monkeys for bananas, likely dangers associated with consumption of bananas.

In his words, "Sweet, filling, reliable bananas are the most popular fruit in the United States, outselling apples and oranges. However, our modern bananas are threatened by a disease that has already taken out an entire previous type of this easy-snacking fruit. "

He noted that "Although bananas are believed to have originated up to 10,000 years ago,while some scientists believe they may have been the world's first fruit. The first bananas are thought to have grown in the region that includes the Malaya Peninsula, Indonesia, the Philippines and New Guinea."

While noting that the research shows that a plant pandemic of Panama disease had actually phased out the original species of commercially consumed bananas, the current species of bananas in existence today which belong to the Cavendish variety are also under threat of going into extinction due to new variants of the old fungi disease. 

He therefore called on the academic community of scholars across all disciplines to join the knowledge-based conversations targeted at putting issues related to rice and myths surrounding them in proper social, scientific, and cultural perspectives. 

Join the conversation this Monday on MAPOLY RADIO 99.7 FM Ojere Abeokuta from 11 am Nigerian time, as maverick Broadcaster, Orunsola again raises the bar on educational broadcasting truly impacts lives with practical knowledge of life's realities!

The pioneer Programmes Head, MAPOLY Radio 99.7 FM Ojere, Abeokuta emphasized that the knowledge based campus Radio show initiated by him aligns with the universally accepted truism that asking questions and inquisitiveness about things without assumptions, drive true functional knowledge.

The audience-commanding multimedia show, which airs every Monday between 11 am and 11.30 am on MAPOLY Radio 99.7 FM is also broadcast on OPEN TELEVISION NAIJA channels in video format on YouTube @opentv-naija, his personal TikTok handle @Weird Lecturer as well as on www.opentvnaija.com

"E YIRI E WO!", a grassroots programme initiated by Olufemi Orunsola to deepen the knowledge-base of Nigerians about life and every day things has previously beamed the searchlight on common objects and essential items such as the broom, mirror, combs, palm oil, eggs, turning stick(omorogun), the coconut, a farm tool called hoe, salt, rice, among other things found in daily life experiences of people across the world.

You can also watch the programme live on Tiktok @ MAPOLY RADIO 99.7 as well as OPEN TELEVISION NAIJA (OTN) News online TV and YouTube channel @ open-tvnaija this week.

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