Hunger in Africa is man made

True.

How exquisitely modern to take a problem of incentives, institutions, logistics, property, and administration—then flatten it into a single word that means “somebody else did it.” Neocolonial has become the upholstered armchair of political thought: one sits down in it, feels virtuous, and does not have to move again. Yes, hunger is man-made. But the men doing the making are not all wearing pith helmets, and most of them are not even abroad. Hunger persists where the boring machinery of civilisation fails: where property is insecure, contracts are ornamental, courts are slow or purchasable, borders are toll booths for the well-connected, and the state treats enterprise as something to be milked rather than multiplied. Food does not travel from field to stomach on outrage; it travels on roads, storage, credit, cold chains, honest weights, predictable permits, enforceable agreements, and the unromantic discipline of not stealing the harvest between the farm gate and the market stall. “Why export?” Because exporting is often the only route that pays on time, in a currency that holds its value, through channels that function. When local markets are distorted by corruption, weak enforcement, arbitrary controls, or currency games, the rational actor does what rational actors always do: sells where payment is reliable and risk is priced. That is not a conspiracy. That is arithmetic. And “Why not process locally?” Because processing requires capital, stable power, skilled labour, maintenance, spare parts, predictable regulation, and protection from the sort of official who views a factory as a public buffet. One can grow maize with rain and luck; one cannot run milling, packaging, refrigeration, fertiliser production, or modern logistics on slogans. If the permitting process is a maze designed to be monetised, if the grid is unreliable, if the customs service is a shakedown, if land tenure is uncertain, and if violence is a variable rather than an exception, then the economy does what it is pushed to do: it stays thin, informal, and export-tilted. Nothing mystical is “stopping” anyone. The brakes are familiar: bad incentives, weak rule of law, politicised distribution, and the absence of institutions that reward building instead of punishing it. Where those institutions exist, food security is not a miracle; it is the predictable consequence of people being allowed to own, to trade, to invest, to insure, to fail without being ruined by officials, and to succeed without being robbed by them. So yes—hunger is man-made. But it is not always made by foreigners. It is made by systems that cannot be trusted to keep a promise, protect a title, enforce a contract, or let enterprise breathe. If one insists on blaming “neocolonialism” for everything, one is really confessing something else: a preference for melodrama over mechanism, and for absolution over repair. The tragedy is not that solutions are unknown. The tragedy is that they are tedious, unflattering, and intolerant of theatrics. Institutions, competence, and enforcement do not trend. They work.

This video hits hard because it's painfully true in parts, we grow premium cocoa, tea, flowers, avocados... ship the best grades abroad, and too often locals get the leftovers or nothing at all. Yet the full picture is more layered than "just export = hunger". Africa has ~60% of the world's remaining arable land, but still imports tens of billions in food every year (projections for 2025 were already ~$90–110B continent-wide before recent shocks). Why? Because: - Post-harvest losses sometimes reach 30–40% due to poor storage, roads & cold chains - Cash-crop economies were designed that way during colonial times and largely never re-oriented - Governance, corruption, insecure land rights and inconsistent policies keep local processing & value-addition painfully slow (yes, Ghana & Côte d'Ivoire now have more chocolate factories than 10 years ago, but scale remains tiny compared to export raw) - Climate + conflict keep displacing farmers in the most productive zones So yes — hunger here is very much man-made, but the hands building (and failing to dismantle) the system are mostly domestic + international, past + present. Real question isn't "who to blame first", but: What practical steps can actually flip this in the next 10 years? - More intra-African trade (AfCFTA is moving, but sloooowly) - Serious investment in rural infrastructure & youth in agribusiness - Policies that reward local value-addition instead of punishing it with taxes/red-tape - Or do we need a deeper mindset shift about what "development" really looks like? Curious what people here think is the #1 lever that could move the needle fastest in your country. Drop your take ↓ 🌍🥭

It’s not about restrictions; it’s about intention. Plenty of African communities have built success through farming without interference. While history matters, not every modern struggle in Africa is a colonial relic. Some things are within our power to change.

There are so many videos proving that. That's their M.O. so you have no resources to fight the colonizers back. Poverty creates great traitors that will do what they want against their own people. Smh.

A real revolution for the people is needed. How you got land and you starving. No one eats, if we don't. No one profits, if we don't.

What she is trying to say is that- Africa is pushed to produce commercial crops like Cocoa and Coffee- raw materials to feed western industries. In doing this, food crops like cereals and tubers are neglected

This is the repeat of what was done in Ireland during the 17th Century which led to the Great Hunger (1845 - 1852). Over one million starved to death while Britain exported all foodstuffs from Ireland.

So why does for example Ghana not have high quality chocolate factories, almost 70 years after breaking free from colonial rule? Why is this country still exporting raw materials, allowing illegal galamsey gold mining and destroying nature? There is shameless mismanagement everywhere. From 1990 to 2016 approx. 80% of the Ghanaian forest reserves were destroyed, largely due to illegal logging and cocoa cultivation. In northern and central Ghana, up to 70% of the land suffers from severe erosion. Bushmeat is sold along the roads everywhere. Ghana is the most destroyed country I have ever seen. You hardly ever see a bird.

To be fair when Zimbabwe redistributed land away from white farmers by force the situation should of improved

So true, infrastructure development is the key solution to ending poverty! Roads, railways, electricity, water, all these are infrastructure projects that are needed to create jobs, stable economy, poverty reduction and social/food security

Richtig , zum Leben hat Afrika alle Ressourcen

I don't understand how, all countries in Africa have erected elaborate buildings, but The African People are suffering. They ask Black Americans to return, we say, TO WHAT, DEATH?

The answer lies here

I mostly get emotional talking about these… Why are we doing this to ourselves? FFS Can’t we build it for our own good? This is certainly not too much to ask🤦🏽‍♂️

If you have 10 children per family and allow poligamy, then africa will always be poor and experience hunger.

Well,a bunch of black people got together and decided they hated the white farmers who grew all the food. So they ran them out and now you have to beg white countries for food.

What Switzerland produces as the best chocolate can be done only as a matter of climate; since having that creamy chocolate can only be done in a cold climate, in the tropics that same chocolate would only be firm for a few minutes outside a store.

The problem is thenlobe and obsession for luxury western products, which in their nature are useless and are destroying the world environment, but we obsessed with them hense we scared of being sanctioned because it means we won't be able to import, even if we eat, & gmo seeds 🙆🏾‍♂️

Chocolate tea flowers does those things mlfeed you come on how many cows does Kenya n ghana have this is bullshit

What is African leaders afraid of?

Beneficiation is prohibited in favour of foreign countries. This is indeed a political question ❓

A high number of diseases in Africa are man made too. Think about autism rate, especially in generation Alpha.

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Ghana has several cocoa plants

It's true

Africans are just too dumb to come together. Simple

If you listen to this woman you'd think that the Africans are powerless. That fact is they refuse to unite & demand respect. No respects cowards its better to die trying. Vietnam fought the French,Japan,South Vietnam, the USA & China & now they're free. Africans just fight each other. Ive never a more weaker people. I'm black so I can say this.

Then make the chocolate yourself and sell it. Buy the best tea yourself process it pack it and sell it, stop blaming other people and do it yourself. You don’t because that’s the hard part.

You really needed someone to tell u that ? Like what if u can grow plants u can grow food

Who told her that lies about Ghana