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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mike111: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by claus3600: [qb] [b]In my own musings as to why (as a whole) Africans are so backward, I see their condition in Newton's first law "A body in motion tends to stay in motion, a body at rest tends to stay at rest".[/b] [b]At the dawn of man, Africans were very creative and innovative in taming their environment and providing for a comfortable existence for themselves. As time went on, nothing changed in nature or their environment, so there was never a need for them to change.[/b] Humans develop their societies as far as the particular ecological basis will allow. Life in Africa has always been tough, since,in ecological terms, Africa was far more difficult to tame than Europe or Asia. There are various reasons as to why, despite man starting out in Africa, it lags developmentally. As I remember from my MA and reading John Reader's Africa:Biography of the Continent, problems included erratic rainfall patterns and drought; largely poor soils due to the stability of the ancient continental landmass/lack of volcanic activity linked to fertile soils; the fact that the continent is - uniquely - bisected by the equator, so proportionately more of the land mass has a tropical climate that allows pests (e.g. mosquitoes, tsetse flies) to breed year round and spread debilitating diseases (e.g. malaria, yellow fever, sleeping sickness - not to forget bilharzia in the rivers and lakes); from memory, comparatively more effort is required to clear African weeds; and marauding African fauna (e.g. elephants stealing crops) all put a brake on Africa's development. Tropical Africa's population growth rate, until the late/post-colonial era was relatively slow- the ecological factors listed above impacted on the ability of women to reproduce. (Reader does a continental/regional population growth comparison in Biography of the Continent, which, if accurate, shows the extent to which Africa's population growth was hampered compared to what was experienced in other parts of the world.) Without the necessary population growth, hands were tied to food production, meaning that there weren't enough individuals who could be freed up to spend time specialising in other areas. Of course, Kemet, Kush, Mali, etc were the exceptions. @kikuyu [b]This unfortunate episode reveals an issue common to nearly all Africa which IMO is at the heart of many of our problems-military weakness.[/b] [b]Nigeria,the regional and continental giant for example has an airforce whose offensive sharp end consists of one flight of new f-7s,a fifty year old Chinese design. [/b] Isn't this an issue that could be described as common to most countries in the world? Even European countries militarily punch below their weight - aside from relying on the Americans to take out Libya's air defence sites, they had to get the Americans to re-ssupply them with munitions once the campaign became prolonged. Given Africa's economic realities, the military weakness of its individual states is not that surprising. [/qb][/QUOTE]^Albino nonsense. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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