African Entrepreneurship Record

Late 1919.

Cabinda City.

Among the many provinces in East Africa, Congo Province is a special one. From a climatic point of view, Congo Province is not suitable for growing food crops because most of it is in the tropical rainforest area.

In ancient times, Congo Province could not support the emergence of a large civilization at all, and it was difficult to enter the agricultural civilization. Of course, the agricultural civilization of the entire sub-Saharan Africa has been advancing very slowly, even in the East African Plateau, which is suitable for agricultural development.

This can be seen from the population of relevant countries in the tropical rainforest climate zone in Africa in the past. Even in the 21st century, the population of Congo (Brazzaville) is only more than 5 million, the population of Gabon is only 3 million, the population of Equatorial Guinea is only more than 1 million, and the population of Cameroon, which is relatively rich, is only more than 20 million. Only the population of Congo (Kinshasa) is nearly 100 million.

However, as mentioned before, the population of Congo is basically distributed in the edge of the basin, that is, the transition zone between the tropical rainforest and the tropical savannah, and the population is almost negligible in the deep tropical rainforest area.

Cameroon, with a population of more than 20 million, or even close to 30 million, can better illustrate this point.

Cameroon is a country with rich coastlines. According to common sense, the population and economy should be concentrated on the coast, but in the past life, the population of Cameroon was more concentrated in the northern or southern plateaus.

Its capital, Yaoundé, was built on the hilly area of ​​the southern plateau of Cameroon in the past life.

The administrative divisions of Cameroon in the past life can also prove this point well. The more tropical rainforest areas, the larger the province area, which fully demonstrates that the development of tropical rainforest areas is not easy.

The situation in Congo Province in East Africa is very similar to Cameroon in the past life. Congo Province is not entirely tropical rainforest areas. Its southern part is affected by the terrain and is also in the transition zone between tropical rainforests and tropical grasslands.

The transition zone is also a relatively developed agricultural area in Congo Province. Kinshasa, the capital of Congo Province, belongs to this transition zone.

However, more than 20 years ago, Kinshasa was obviously not the case. In the past, due to the infrequent human activities, Kinshasa and other places actually belonged to the tropical rainforest area. However, after East Africa controlled the Congo Province, large-scale land reclamation and construction caused a large amount of rainforest to be burned and converted into cities, towns or farmland.

This made the climate in the entire region begin to move closer to the tropical savanna climate. After all, the ecology here is relatively fragile. The tropical rainforest and tropical savanna maintain a fragile balance, thus competing against each other. The development of East Africa has caused the rainforest to shrink on a large scale, and the savanna climate characteristics have begun to prevail.

However, even so, the land in Congo Province is still relatively barren, and the main crops grown in the province are also dominated by tropical rainforest economy.

The so-called tropical rainforest cash crops are actually a division made for tropical savanna cash crops. This is a unique agricultural division standard in East Africa.

Of course, compared with Kinshasa or the southern part of Congo Province, the tropical rainforest climate of Cabinda, located on the northwest coast, is much more stable. Although the entire city of Cabinda has been developed in East Africa, the urban area and population have continued to expand, but it is a city completely surrounded by rainforests.

As of 1919, the population of Cabinda City reached 830,000, and the registered population was as high as 670,000.

As time goes by, more detailed data on the population of East Africa has been released, and the permanent population of each city has been counted.

As of 1919, there were as many as eight cities in East Africa with a population of over one million. Of course, if the registered population is counted, there are still three cities.

At the same time, there were about ten cities in the United States with a population of over one million, which was higher than that of East Africa. This also reflects the gap between urbanization in East Africa and the United States to a certain extent. After all, the population of East Africa is nearly 60 million more than that of the United States, which is almost equivalent to Germany.

In 1919, there was only one city on the west coast of East Africa with a population of over one million, which was Luanda, the capital of the West Coast Province. Cabinda's population was second only to Luanda, but far higher than Kinshasa, the capital of Congo Province.

Except for Luanda, the eight cities with a population of over one million in East Africa are basically distributed in the east and central regions, which also shows that at this stage, the economy of the west cannot be compared with that of the central and eastern parts of East Africa.

However, this is also normal. The western part of East Africa, especially the former Angola region, was occupied and incorporated into East Africa too late.

When East Africa took over Angola from Portugal, it was hardly effectively developed and utilized, and industry and transportation were basically zero.

Angola is already the best piece of land in western East Africa. To the north is the tropical rainforest area, and to the south is the tropical desert area, which is not suitable for urban and agricultural development.

As the second largest city in western East Africa, Cabinda has developed to its current level in less than 30 years, which is enough to surprise the world.

Even Cabinda is the most developed city in the tropical rainforest of East Africa, and the second is Kisan, the capital of Hesse Province.

And this city built on the coast and surrounded by rainforest on three sides, the East African government can be said to have invested a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources.

After all, it is a city developed in the rainforest, and its development cost is naturally higher than that of ordinary cities, but the results have also made East Africa very satisfied.

The Customs Entry-Exit Quarantine and Epidemic Prevention Bureau of Cabinda City is located in the port area of ​​Cabinda.

Director Borna is standing by the window and admiring the scenery of Cabinda City.

Borna looked at the sea view of Cabinda and said leisurely: "Standing from this position, you can have a good view of the spectacular scenery of Cabinda Port, but who can imagine that this prosperous metropolis has changed in thirty years?" It was just a small Portuguese stronghold that was completely undeveloped!”

Deputy Director Lisher sat on the sofa and drank tea and said: "This just illustrates the great achievements we have made in the economic field in East Africa in the past thirty years. Before the 1970s, we were still a poor colony."

"But now, East Africa has become a major world power, and cities such as Cabinda are developing by leaps and bounds."

Borna agreed and said: "It is true. When I was young, the economic environment in East Africa was still quite poor. Except for its relatively large area, it was not much different from ordinary backward countries in other aspects. If we go back further, that At that time, East Africa’s economy was even more backward.”

"My father was a graduate of the 4th Hechingen Military Academy. When he was less than nineteen years old, he followed others to come to Africa to pioneer."

"He later married my mother in Plateau Province, which is now Lake Solon Province, and they had me the following year."

"However, my father served in the army all year round and had little time to take care of the family. I still vividly remember the small village where my mother and I lived. It was still a border area at that time."

"However, it has now become the inland hinterland of the empire. It has to be said that fate has played a trick on people. No one could have imagined that a colony that started on the coast of East Africa could develop into a significant power in the world in less than half a century. ”

"It's because I live in such a big country and look at the achievements of my fathers that I can reach my current position."

"As a meritorious service to the empire, my father has accumulated rich connections in the army. Although his military talents are not outstanding, he knows a lot of people. Even many of his classmates are now in the imperial army and Among the top officials of the government, there are many senior officials at the provincial level and above.”

"My life is pretty good now, but I still miss my childhood days with my mother in the East, where I went to school and eventually went to high school."

"At that time, education in the empire was not yet mature, and the number of places to enter middle school was very limited. My grades were not outstanding, but I still entered middle school because of my father's status."

"It's a pity that I didn't know how to cherish it at that time, and ultimately failed to pass the national unified examination. Otherwise, if I had become a college student, I wouldn't be just a small director now."

Borna, director of the Entry-Exit Inspection and Epidemic Prevention Bureau of Cabinda, is a member of the local generation. The so-called local generation refers to the first batch of descendants born of the first generation of immigrants from East Africa.

After all, East Africa itself is a country that developed from a colony. The people in East Africa today are all immigrants if you go back further, except for the extremely rare San people in Southwest Province (Namibia) and other areas.

From this point of view, the Bantu people are the black people who have been completely emptied out of East Africa. They are also immigrants, but they came less than a thousand years earlier than the East Africans today.

Even the farther south you go, the closer the time gap becomes. East Africa is almost less than two hundred years later than Zulu and other Bantu people.

Because according to clues, the Zulu tribe was established around the beginning of the 18th century. They also belonged to the group of Bantu black people who went south. They even arrived in South Africa earlier than the colonists from Portugal, the Netherlands and other countries.

From this perspective, although East Africa has seized the land of black people, the land of black people was originally taken from the San and other races.

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The San people, or the Bushmen as the Dutch call them, although their skin color is darker due to the influence of the environment, most of their characteristics are consistent with those of the yellow race, but they are genetically an ancient independent race.

There are currently a small number of San people living in East Africa. This is not because the East Africans are kinder than the Bantu people and they have not been exterminated, but because the place they live in is too harsh and inaccessible.

According to the inference of the East African government, there may be many San survivors in the desert areas of the southwest. Because of the harsh environment in areas such as the Kalahari Desert, they also escaped the Bantu and East African purges.

As for why the East African government didn't find them, there is really no need. The Kalahari Desert alone covers an area of ​​more than 600,000 square kilometers. There are many mountains, plateaus, canyons and other complex terrains in southern East Africa.

It can be said that it is difficult to explore and find these San tribes. The only feasible way is to conduct uninterrupted aerial reconnaissance of the hinterland of the Kalahari Desert and other regions through aircraft.

However, the aircraft has only been around for a few years, and its battery life and technology are also big problems. The East African government obviously does not have the time and energy to play this kind of hide-and-seek game.

However, there is absolutely no need for the East African government to find these San people who are even rarer than some rare wild animals. According to the East African government's predictions, there may not even be 10,000 San people in East Africa at present, compared to a population of more than 100 million. In East Africa, the San people are not even considered a drop of water.

This also leads to the fact that there is no need to exterminate the San people in East Africa. For these San people, East Africa's solution is to continue to maintain their status quo.

After all, if their living environment is not interfered with by external forces, their population and civilization level will not change much after tens of thousands of years. In fact, the San people may not have changed much in tens of thousands of years since they separated from other humans.

Otherwise, they would not have been defeated by the Bantu people from West Africa. You know, in the eyes of East African colonists, the Bantu people are already quite primitive.

Lisher and Borna certainly don't care about the fate of a weak race that may exist in the southwest.

Lisher expressed his admiration for Director Borna's experience and said, "The Director has a good father!"

Director Borna said without hesitation, "This is natural. After all, my father fought for the empire for more than ten years and made great contributions."

Lisher said, "Not only that, even without your father's resources, I think you can still reach this point today. After all, middle school students more than 30 years ago were considered highly educated intellectuals in East Africa, and they were not bad in the world."

Today, although the academic qualifications in East Africa have been devalued to a certain extent, this is what has happened in the past 30 years. When Borna was in school, primary education was not even fully popularized in East Africa, and secondary education had just begun to be promoted on a large scale.

So, 30 years ago, Borna's academic qualifications were still very valuable. Of course, now that East Africa has experienced the devaluation of academic qualifications, the so-called middle school students can almost be said to be worthless.

In East Africa, it is rare to have no secondary school education. College students are the ones who are not affected. Although many universities have been built in East Africa in recent years, they can barely meet the needs of East African society. Even so, if compared horizontally, East Africa is already a country with a relatively "flooded" number of college students.

Of course, people in the early 20th century did not see the true flooding of higher education in the world in the 21st century. Now East African college students can find good jobs, while many college students in the 21st century have more difficult employment directions.

Although Ernst knows that more talents are better, he does not intend to follow the higher education enrollment model of the 21st century.

After all, this means cost issues. Higher education is a very expensive thing. Of course, here we are referring to colleges and universities that are truly capable and run seriously.

In addition to the high investment cost for the government, the popularization of higher education is also very expensive for some ordinary families. In addition to basic expenses such as tuition fees, time cost is also a problem.

The study time of higher education is basically about four years, and many families have to pay four years of time cost in addition to four years of expenses, but for an ordinary person, these four years are very precious.

After all, the most important stage for life and society is the youth stage, and the higher education stage happens to be in this golden period of life.

If, because the threshold of higher education is lowered, a group of "surplus" college students are cultivated, but there is no corresponding job arrangement, which leads to their overflow to farmland, construction sites or factories to do the most basic work, this is completely meaningless.

After all, this kind of work with little gold content can be done by East African middle school students after graduation, and they can even perform better because they are in better health and younger.

Therefore, higher education in East Africa has always been maintained within a controllable range, and it is better to have nothing than to have something bad. This can be seen from the experience of Director Borna. Even though he has a father with a relatively deep background, he has no way to enter the university campus through the back door.

However, even so, the higher education in East Africa is much lower than that of other countries at the same time, otherwise it would not be possible to become the country with the largest number of college students in the world.