That bit of the article (being generous, actually the whole thing is) is a blatant copy paste from wikipedia… this is the missing rest of the sentence:
…had been there since the fifteenth century and had been introduced through other means, namely by early Portugueseexplorers who obtained them from West Africa and were later responsible for spreading them to the Caribbean.[5] African bananas in turn were introduced from Southeast Asia into Madagascar by early Austronesian sailors.[6] In 1888, bananas from the Canary Islands were imported into England by Thomas Fyffe. These bananas are now known to belong to the Dwarf Cavendish cultivar.[7]
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