African Entrepreneurship Records

Chapter 896 “Grassland” Great Migration

Of course, compared with countries like the Far Eastern Empire that have strong traditional agriculture and attach great importance to the construction of water conservancy facilities, East Africa is still far behind. However, compared with some less developed countries and regions in Europe and the United States, the water conservancy facilities in central and eastern East Africa It is already quite complete, not to mention some countries and regions that are more backward and sparsely populated.

 In fact, the two national water conservancy construction projects in East Africa were completely out of the question. The purpose of the East African government, or Ernst, was to use one generation to complete the development path of other countries that took hundreds or even thousands of years.

Water conservancy construction is the blood vessel of agriculture. It is a hard work that must be done, and there is no shortcut. Therefore, it can only be completed by means of "iron and blood". Of course, the indigenous people are the main force bleeding.

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As the East African government finalized all the details, the second national water conservancy construction project was launched. This time, the East African government had the experience of the first national water conservancy construction project, so it was more comfortable to mobilize national efforts.

 “Go to the west, go to the south, go to the places where the motherland needs you!”

Although East Africa is a country of immigrants, the slogan also uses the "patriotic" card in its description. In fact, the number of native-born residents in East Africa now exceeds the number of immigrants.

And the main target of this mobilization is the new generation of young and strong labor force in East Africa. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the second national water conservancy construction project, East Africa plans to conduct a national population migration to the west and south at the same time, completely changing the independence of central and eastern East Africa. big situation.

 In fact, the three places of Angola, Mozambique and Orange have actually laid a certain foundation due to several years of construction in East Africa. This is the basis for the great migration in East Africa this time.

Moreover, this immigration mainly targets the agricultural field. As for industrial immigration activities, it has long been carried out simultaneously with the industrial transfer.

 Kegel Village, Kagera City, Western Great Lakes Province.

Andre's words naturally caused a small stir among the villagers. After all, immigration is never a simple matter, involving all aspects, and every immigration means the "split" of some families.

However, immigration did not cause big trouble. After all, this is already normal for the people of East Africa. People in East Africa migrate from densely populated areas to other places every year. Even in the small village of Kegel, many young people leave every year. It went to all parts of the country, but this time the East African government took a bigger step.

“According to national requirements, each household with a large family size must send at least one person to work in the underdeveloped areas of the west and south. Our West Great Lakes Province is a key area for this immigration. You must actively cooperate with the government’s actions to complete this Mission indicators." said Andre, the mayor of Kegel Village.

“Andre, why is the immigration momentum so great this time?” A villager asked by calling him by his first name.

"This is actually easy to understand. The last time our country expanded its territory, it seized a lot of land from the Portuguese and Boers. In order to control and develop these new territories, manpower is naturally needed. Although there were immigration activities in several places before, only It’s an appetizer.”

“Now, after several years of governance in Angola, Mozambique and other places, both social security and economic foundation are very impressive. Therefore, on this basis, in order to balance regional development, it is natural to further increase the number of immigrants.”

To put it simply, in the past few years, the East African government has solved the unstable factors in these new regions. Coupled with the needs of national development and the need for water conservancy and other infrastructure construction, the East African government plans to do it in one step and directly transfer Mozambique. Angola and other places became core territories in East Africa. "Don't take chances in this matter. After all, as a backward country in East Africa, if we want to develop, we must take strong medicine. Moreover, it is just a change to a new living area. If you go to a new place, your life will not be as good as before." It’s a big change, after all, it’s all the same East Africa, it’s different wherever you go!” Andre emphasized.

"And this immigration activity is much simpler than it was more than ten years ago. Nowadays, railways and highways are more developed than before, and it doesn't take too long to travel to all parts of the country. If we push the time forward ten years, then Immigration is the real hard work, and I think it goes without saying that many old people in the village can recall the hard times in East Africa.”

Andre’s words indeed triggered the memories of some old immigrants, but going back further, it would only be more difficult when they were in Eurasia.

 After more than a month of preparation, the first batch of people relocating from Kegel Village finally reached more than 100 people, and there may be a second and third phase later... until the needs of the East African government are met.

As a large agricultural province, the Western Great Lakes Province’s natural population growth rate is extremely terrifying in East Africa, so this immigration activity will not be considered detrimental to the local economic development.

It can even be said that the population pressure has been reduced. After all, as a large agricultural province, West Great Lakes Province only has so many agricultural resources, but the population growth rate is not slow. If there were not continuous population loss and no industrial support, the per capita resources would only be There are fewer and fewer people, thus entering a poverty mode. If the population continues to grow disorderly and the industrial structure does not change much, then India and East Asian countries may be the future of the current Western Great Lakes Province.

Therefore, the Western Great Lakes Provincial Government supports the population loss, although the agricultural potential of the Western Great Lakes Province itself has not yet been fully developed.

With population migration and engineering construction, a large number of people passed through East Africa's railways and highways were continuously transported to all parts of the country. Many families said goodbye in tears. The same scene continued to play out in various eastern regions.

The central region is slightly better. As the region with the largest population after the eastern region, the central region is far from being comparable to the eastern region, so it is not the main force of this immigration. However, due to the transfer of backward production capacity, the industrial population in the central region has moved to other areas more than east.

According to statistics from later generations of East Africans, from 1894 to 1900, at least more than eight million people immigrated from East Africa to Angola, Mozambique and other places, completely changing the population distribution in East Africa and causing the population in the western and southern regions to increase in a short period of time. to the tens of millions level.

Of course, the value created by these people’s local development and construction will only be reflected in the next century.

This mighty national migration activity is known as the "Great Migration of East African Grasslands." As a country with a tropical grassland climate, the great migration of animals in the East African grasslands is quite spectacular, but this time it is the migration of East African people. So use this to describe this East African population migration.

Of course, with the development of East African countries, the so-called great migration of grassland animals has actually become increasingly difficult to see in later generations, except in places such as the Serengeti. East African population migration and engineering construction have squeezed the living space of local wild animals. The pressure is very obvious.

 This population migration has also been talked about by all countries in later generations. After all, as a country that has become a world power in a short period of time, many people are very interested in the rise of East Africa.

 The rapid rise of large cities such as Luanda, Cabinda and Beira in East Africa in later years is also considered to be related to this population migration, making them become a group of well-known large cities in the world in the 20th century.

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