The hit on world grain supplies from Russia’s war in Ukraine compounds the ills of African conflicts, climate change and the aftereffects of the Covid-19 pandemic
Global climate change and the all the plants and animals that have gone extinct makes Africa a different place than it was when hominids first evolved. And the population sizes were on entirely different magnitudes pre-agriculture. And even then, when they did start spreading, many of them starved or died from other things we would consider preventable in modern contexts.
So whether or not people are currently dealing with food insecurity in Africa has pretty much nothing to do with where humanity evolved from. The explanation for what is going on, even though we have agriculture and could feed everyone, is colonialism.
Yes, Europeans are absolutely not exonerated for taking advantage of African slavery.
It’s a shame that such a naturally-rich continent has been existing in relative poverty for so long.
It also goes into how uhh, people have mentioned that economies built around raw materials aren’t as wealthy as those who refine and develop those materials.
I think, though, that is all goes back to slavery. It’s easier to exploit low-skilled harvesters than high-skilled refiners/implementers.
How come that whole continent, which is the birthplace of homo sapiens, can’t feed it’s population?
Probably from the Europeans pilfering their lands for almost a century.
Damn Euros.
Global climate change and the all the plants and animals that have gone extinct makes Africa a different place than it was when hominids first evolved. And the population sizes were on entirely different magnitudes pre-agriculture. And even then, when they did start spreading, many of them starved or died from other things we would consider preventable in modern contexts.
So whether or not people are currently dealing with food insecurity in Africa has pretty much nothing to do with where humanity evolved from. The explanation for what is going on, even though we have agriculture and could feed everyone, is colonialism.
Slavery. Africans sold themselves out and are still facing the repercussions.
Rather than work together to build wealth and value in their society, they just conquered whoever was the weakest and sold them into slavery.
Warring tribes in Africa sell their captives to the Dutch, true.
European powers have a long history of exploiting African resources and have purposely kept those people in a position to be unsuccessful.
Yes, Europeans are absolutely not exonerated for taking advantage of African slavery.
It’s a shame that such a naturally-rich continent has been existing in relative poverty for so long.
It also goes into how uhh, people have mentioned that economies built around raw materials aren’t as wealthy as those who refine and develop those materials.
I think, though, that is all goes back to slavery. It’s easier to exploit low-skilled harvesters than high-skilled refiners/implementers.