It's also known as durra, Egyptian millet, and milo as well as other nom de grains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carbonnade] Reference

One of the oldest, the durra (crook - necked) variety, was eaten in Egypt more than 4,000 years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [7. Sorghum] Reference

Ethiopia is its center of diversity, and durra sorghum is still the staple food for most of the populace of the Horn of Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [7. Sorghum] Reference

At the south transept where was "the Minster durra that openeth to the Trinite Churchyarde," the descent must have been considerable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains] Reference

I've never tried the grain and didn't even know there was a grain until I did a little research -- although I've heard of both durra and Egyptian millet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carbonnade] Reference

Hedjaz use very little wheat; their bread is made either of durra or barley-flour, both of which are one-third cheaper than wheat; or they live entirely upon rice and butter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Arabia] Reference

Bandeliah — whose stature was at least six feet four — yet nothing would be of any use to him, unless he could come to an agreement with Mabonga, the queen of the Houlas, to split a durra straw with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Springhaven] Reference

In the square of the mosque, several small stone basins are regularly filled with water for their use; here also Arab women expose to sale, upon small straw mats, corn and durra, which the pilgrims purchase, and throw to the pigeons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Arabia] Reference

Taraba is environed with palm-groves and gardens, watered by numerous rivulets; near it are some inconsiderable hills, at the foot of which the Arabs cultivate durra and barley: the inhabitants are of the Begoum tribe, and their Sheikh is Ibn Korshán.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Arabia] Reference

With the Bedouins of the Eastern plain they exchange durra for cattle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred] Reference

Towns took the place of villages, with huts of the shape of bells, thatched with durra straw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

From time to time waves of sand are borne over, and drown the narrow fields of durra and of barley.    From Wordnik.com.  [History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)] Reference

Village matbar (local leader) Delwar Hossain alias Ullashi executed the durra (lashes) on January 17.    From Wordnik.com.  [FACT - Freedom Against Censorship Thailand] Reference

When durra fields are in the neighbourhood of the baboons 'haunts, watchmen must be posted, or the animals work great havoc among the grain.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People] Reference

As the men were quiet in their huts, Susi replied, "I can hear from the cries that the people are scaring away a buffalo from their durra fields.".    From Wordnik.com.  [From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People] Reference

There lay villages and fishing-stations in the shade of palms and mimosas, and round the villages grew maize and durra, manioc, yams, and sweet potatoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People] Reference

Known as milo, durra, or broomcorn, sorghum is a grass species that can grow up to five metres tall and is extremely resistant to aridity and hot conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference

They get little else, when they are with the Arabs; a handful of durra, occasionally, when they are at work; but at other times they only get what they can pick up.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Kitchener in the Soudan A Story of Atbara and Omdurman] Reference

In the square of the mosque, several small stone basins are regularly filled with water for their use; here also Arab women expose to sale, upon small straw mats, corn and durra, which the pilgrims.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred] Reference

The common people of the Hedjaz use very little wheat; their bread is made either of durra or barley-flour, both of which are one - third cheaper than wheat; or they live entirely upon rice and butter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred] Reference

Taraba is environed with palm-groves and gardens, watered by numerous rivulets; near it are some inconsiderable hills, at the foot of which the Arabs cultivate durra and barley: the inhabitants are of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred] Reference

Sandan: durra, feterita.    From Wordnik.com.  [7. Sorghum] Reference

Djidda eat nothing but durra.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Arabia] Reference

"The peasants are incessantly making inroads on each other's lands, destroying their corn, durra, sesame and olive-trees, and carrying off their sheep, goats and camels.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The Yemen people in Djidda eat nothing but durra.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred] Reference

Egypt: durra.    From Wordnik.com.  [7. Sorghum] Reference

India: jola, jowar, jawa, cholam, durra, shallu, bisinga.    From Wordnik.com.  [7. Sorghum] Reference

S. drummondii, S. guineense, S. roxburghii, S. nervosum, S. dochna, S. caffrorum, S. nigricans, S. caudatum, S. durra, S. cernuum, S. subglabrescens.    From Wordnik.com.  [7. Sorghum] Reference

The exports consist in hides, wax, wool, leeches, dates, almonds, oranges, and other fruit, bark, flax, durra, chick-peas, bird-seed, oxen and sheep, henna, and other dyes, woollen sashes, haicks, Moorish slippers, poultry, eggs, flour, &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Morocco] Reference