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Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000 by James C. McCann (Paperback, 2007)

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He chronicles the ways in which maize has adapted itself to African conditions, slowly becoming a major African food staple. In the book's most fascinating chapter, he convincingly links a major malaria epidemic in the highlands of Ethiopia in 1998 to the widespread adoption of maize in the area over the preceding decade.