When Joseph Conrad took his trip up the Congo River, he came away deeply wowed by the extent of the Africans' mastery of the land and their crops

African agriculture is to this day so well-established and sophisticated I spent my entire life hearing about how we have to feed them or they would starve.

Even after the White Man's Green Revolution, whenever the whites are thrown out of an African nation, they immediately have to start importing food. Because they are such natural agriculturalists.

Africans are such natural masters of crop and herd that Jared Diamond had to write an entire cope-sterpiece about how they literally couldn't domesticate any useful crops or animals.

Africans are so good at herding that they regularly try to sneak through airports with "bushmeat" instead of their stocks of "guinea fowl" and cattle imported from the Nuer or something

"You know what *I* thought was the worst part? The fact that despite a year-round growing season, the rich historical agricultural tradition of Africa can't even feed itself! 'Puzzling'!"