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🔴 🌍 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/
#Essay #Anthropology #Colonialism #Food #Africa npub1a3rvljdpef6m8gyfcu7hya6adq4pnd2j7w0c403nzwax4e6e4rhq04an72 (npub1a3r…an72)
"“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/
#Essay #Anthropology #Colonialism #Food #Africa npub1a3rvljdpef6m8gyfcu7hya6adq4pnd2j7w0c403nzwax4e6e4rhq04an72 (npub1a3r…an72)