In Africa, the sap used to create palm wine is most often taken from wild datepalms such as the silver date palm ("Phoenix sylvestris"), the palmyra, and the jaggery palm ("Caryota urens"), or from oil palm such as the African Oil Palm ("Elaeis guineense") or from "Raffia palms", "kithul" palms, or "nipa" palms. In part of central and western Democratic Republic of the Congo, palm wine is called "malafu". Palm wine tapping is mentioned in the novel "Things Fall Apart" by the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe and is central to the plot of the novel "The Palm Wine Drinkard" by Nigerian author Amos Tutuola.