🔴 🌍 How Colonialism Invented Food Insecurity in West Africa

"“There’s been this long-standing argument—and this is something that comes out of the colonial narrative—that parts of Africa have just always been food insecure because their agriculture, environments, or crops are inferior,” says Logan. But, as the data show, African farmers were knowledgeable and successful for thousands of years. Outside forces uprooted that security."

🔗 https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/food-insecurity-west-africa-origins-colonialism/

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