Given the idealogical, cultured, political and religious diversity of Africa why do so many of them ignore agriculture. Even given resource exporters like Indonesia and a basketcase like Pakistan managed to make the bare minimum progress in cereal yields per hectare.
At least Ethiopia is close to 3 tonnes of food per hectare. Ghana hit 2.5 tonnes of food per hectare in 2022. But there still needs to be more progress.
I remain optimistic for Ethiopia. For all the naysayers, I would like remind people that India had 12-15 resurgences when my dad was my age. Some of those insurgencies are still going on.
Yeah. I doubt it too. Although imo I don't see why Balkanisation would be a bad thing in many African countries. They keep complaining about their colonial borders so I don't see why they don't just break up and stop bitching about it.
On a side note, if any country is going to Balkanise by the end of the decade it would be Myanmar hopefully.
If Ethiopia kept Eritrea, Eritrea wouldn't be African North Korea but they would have still felt subjugated. But they would have probably been more prosperous together, with Ethiopia no longer being landlocked.
South Sudan had to leave Sudan. Sudan was brutal to them, but Sudan is nothing without South Sudanese oil, and South Sudan has a lot of problems.
Namibia is still pretty connected with South Africa. Namibia uses the rand and their Namibian dollar.
The only "balkanization success story" is probably Cape Verde leaving Guinea Bissau, although they were basically split at independence.
I like the chronological explanations showing how things came to the point. I'll look forward to the next part. I'm curious as to the US being in...or out?
The famine in Niger started before 1974 - I was in Niger in June 1973 on a trip from Burkina (Haute Volta at the time) with 9 other Peace Corps volunteers to watch the total eclipse in Timia, north of Agades. On our way up from Niamey, we passed huge (I mean really huge) piles of the carcasses of starving cattle that the Tuaregs had had to slaughter before they died, to at least recover what little meat there was. It was surreal.
Given the idealogical, cultured, political and religious diversity of Africa why do so many of them ignore agriculture. Even given resource exporters like Indonesia and a basketcase like Pakistan managed to make the bare minimum progress in cereal yields per hectare.
Its really really sad.
At least Ethiopia is close to 3 tonnes of food per hectare. Ghana hit 2.5 tonnes of food per hectare in 2022. But there still needs to be more progress.
I remain optimistic for Ethiopia. For all the naysayers, I would like remind people that India had 12-15 resurgences when my dad was my age. Some of those insurgencies are still going on.
I am optimistic on Ethiopia too. Many people think Ethiopia will have a "Yugoslavia moment" but I don't think that will happen.
Yeah. I doubt it too. Although imo I don't see why Balkanisation would be a bad thing in many African countries. They keep complaining about their colonial borders so I don't see why they don't just break up and stop bitching about it.
On a side note, if any country is going to Balkanise by the end of the decade it would be Myanmar hopefully.
Balkanization has been a mixed bag.
If Ethiopia kept Eritrea, Eritrea wouldn't be African North Korea but they would have still felt subjugated. But they would have probably been more prosperous together, with Ethiopia no longer being landlocked.
South Sudan had to leave Sudan. Sudan was brutal to them, but Sudan is nothing without South Sudanese oil, and South Sudan has a lot of problems.
Namibia is still pretty connected with South Africa. Namibia uses the rand and their Namibian dollar.
The only "balkanization success story" is probably Cape Verde leaving Guinea Bissau, although they were basically split at independence.
So much information here. I’ll go through it again, there’s a lot to digest. There are so many parallels to each of the countries you discuss.
I'm curious what you found the most interesting.
I like the chronological explanations showing how things came to the point. I'll look forward to the next part. I'm curious as to the US being in...or out?
The famine in Niger started before 1974 - I was in Niger in June 1973 on a trip from Burkina (Haute Volta at the time) with 9 other Peace Corps volunteers to watch the total eclipse in Timia, north of Agades. On our way up from Niamey, we passed huge (I mean really huge) piles of the carcasses of starving cattle that the Tuaregs had had to slaughter before they died, to at least recover what little meat there was. It was surreal.