>>13961417Bullshit, the worst disease Europe faced (the Bubonic plague) was imported from Asia. Meanwhile the worst disease South America faced (Small pox) while imported from Europeans is thought to first originate from Northern Africa. Neither Europe nor South America had to deal with worse diseases in their native lands until foreign vectors/ diseases came in.
Meanwhile Africans straight up had to deal with native vectors with diseases so hostile that a unique blood cell trait (Sickle Cell) had to be adapted just so they wouldn't die out in certain regions. And deal with diseases that 95% of their own livestock can't handle. You know how many livestock in Africa has developed natural resistance to the Tsetse Fly? Just three, the shorthorn and N'dama cattle and dwarf goat. That's it, anything else gets completely bodied like pic related and dies. That one insect species alone cost them the equivalent of $4 billion every year. Imagine having your agriculture infrastructure crippled by one insect. And worse the only way to deal with it is to use scientific advancements centuries in the making to identify how it spreads on the microscopic level and genetically alter one of the sexes so it can reduce the population. And even then it still doesn't get rid of them.
When people discuss about issues concerning Africa in terms of development that's what they're usually talking about. If certain industries can't fully developed its hard to get the necessary resources to develop other industries. It's like asking why humans didn't colonize Antarctica thousands of years ago. It's because the technology to reach and deal with the environment wasn't there. And even if you could make it with less technology you would basically end up like the Inuit Amerindians of North Canada. Hooded herders riding sleds with dogs and huttled up in a igloo.
