Africans can't even eat, why don't they want to open up wasteland for farming?

As one of the seven continents in the world, Africa once had a glorious history. As early as 6000 years ago, writing appeared, and ancient Egypt was one of the cradles of the whole world civilization. Now, Africa has become the poorest continent except Antarctica.

As the earliest origin of mankind, Africa's civilization has developed much longer than other continents. But until now, people in Africa and most countries are always eating their last meal and struggling on the edge of hunger. It is a very extravagant vision to just eat and wear warm clothes.

But Africa's natural resources are actually very rich. The ancient Egyptian civilization, which was born in the Nile valley, is also a kind of farming civilization, just like the Chinese civilization. But why do many Africans prefer to farm on an empty stomach now?

To answer this question, triangle trade needs to analyze the history of Africa in two parts, that is, before and after their colonization.

In 65438+5th century, the compass, one of the four great inventions of China, was introduced to the west and was widely used in navigation. In addition, the West was experiencing the Renaissance at that time, and everyone was very dissatisfied with the lifeless Europe under religious rule. They yearned for an adventurous, novel and interesting life, so the era of great navigation began.

Then Europeans entered Africa and found that there were so many primitive tribes in Africa and "extremely clever orangutans who looked like people". They transported these "orangutans" to all parts of the world as extremely cheap labor to help them explore the soil of the New World.

This is the infamous "triangle trade" in history. It was at this time that all parts of Africa became European colonies, and the whole history took a big turning point.

When Europeans entered Africa before colonization, they found that there were almost no civilized human settlements in Africa. But the glory of ancient Egypt is real, that is to say, in thousands of years, African civilization has made little progress!

In fact, the natural environment in Africa is quite excellent. As early as 65,438+0,000 years ago, the Sahara desert was even a forest, and the Nile valley was full of swamps. Even if a lot of land is desertified due to rapid climate change, at least there is a lot of fertile soil around the Nile Valley, not to mention Central Africa and South Africa.

But even so, except for ancient Egypt, there has never been any farming civilization or other forms of civilization in other parts of Africa, because the rich natural resources made ancient Egypt appear.

There are all kinds of edible plants growing in Africa. Africans hardly need to work. They only need to stay in the mountains for an hour, turn around, and the food for one day will be done. Coupled with the warm climate, they don't even have to store food for the winter, and they don't have to worry about not having enough to eat all year round.

Among them, two edible plants are the most popular among Africans. One is called baobab, which is an extremely common tree species in Africa. Its fruit can be up to 20 cm long and is rich in protein, sugar and cellulose. You only need to pick two a day, so you don't have to be hungry all day.

Besides fruit, baobab leaves can also be eaten directly, which is a common vegetable in Africa. The leaves of baobab trees contain a lot of cellulose and calcium, which can promote human health. Moreover, the trunk of baobab tree is very huge and can store a lot of water. If you insert a tube into it, you can drink it directly as a drink, clean and sweet.

Another kind of plant is called camphor tree. As the name implies, this tree will produce a fruit that looks like sausage and tastes very sweet. The "sausage" produced by these sausage trees can even reach half a meter long and weigh 10 kg. So Africans only need to guard a few fragrant trees, so they don't have to worry about not having enough to eat.

Moreover, these two kinds of trees are not only human goals, but also animals will come to feed. In China, the so-called "waiting for the rabbit" is a joke, but it is a true story in Africa. They just need to wait under the baobab tree and sausage tree, and naturally there will be animals with long eyes to get water to eat. They just need to set some simple traps in advance, or directly invite people to catch them together, or even save hunting.

It is precisely because of the existence of baobabs and sausage trees that Africans have been addicted to pleasure for a long time, and there were no foreign enemies in Africa at that time, so they slowly fell into this kind of comfort and were unwilling to farm.

After being colonized by Europeans, a large number of Africans, especially African men, were sold all over the world, resulting in a large number of labor losses in Africa, so the remaining Africans relied more on baobabs and sausage trees.

Coupled with the oppression and exploitation of the invaders, their ascending channel was completely closed, and some rare land became the property of western monopoly capital. Most Africans don't farm their own land, and as a result, only some fields are occupied by Europe and America, which makes the African people worse.

Therefore, Africans are increasingly dependent on baobab trees and sausage trees. On the one hand, they lost their enterprising spirit under rich natural conditions, on the other hand, they were oppressed and invaded by foreign enemies. The two reasons together are the reasons why Africans don't farm. The so-called "a clever woman can't cook without rice", not to mention that she is not a "clever woman".