{"id":16899,"date":"2015-12-23T22:18:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T21:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/?p=16899"},"modified":"2020-12-05T14:17:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T13:17:54","slug":"what-if-africa-had-never-been-colonised-by-europeans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/what-if-africa-had-never-been-colonised-by-europeans\/","title":{"rendered":"What if Africa had never been colonised by Europeans?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Africa_North_Up\"<\/a><\/p>\n

What if the Black Plague had killed off almost all Europeans? Then the Reconquista never happens. Spain and Portugal don’t kickstart Europe’s colonization of other continents. And this is what Africa might have looked like.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lovely alternative history long read postulating an Africa that had never undergone European colonisation.<\/p>\n

Source: Africa, Uncolonized: A Detailed Look at an Alternate Continent | Big Think<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What if the Black Plague had killed off almost all Europeans? Then the Reconquista never happens. Spain and Portugal don’t kickstart Europe’s colonization of other continents. And this is what Africa might have looked like. Lovely alternative history long read postulating an Africa that had never undergone European colonisation. Source: Africa, Uncolonized: A Detailed Look … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,39],"tags":[300,296],"class_list":["post-16899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography","category-history","tag-processed","tag-published"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prY0k-4oz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16722,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/the-price-of-of-repression-is-violence\/","url_meta":{"origin":16899,"position":0},"title":"The price of of repression is violence","author":"Limbic","date":"June 14, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cRepression may reduce overall dissent, but cause dissent that occurs to become more violent,\u201d demonstrated with descriptive data from across Africa (Wallsworth). via The take-aways from four dozen papers on conflict and fragility in Africa in under 2,000 words","rel":"","context":"In "Geography & Weather"","block_context":{"text":"Geography & Weather","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/category\/science\/geography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16857,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/appeal-to-worse-problems\/","url_meta":{"origin":16899,"position":1},"title":"Appeal to Worse Problems","author":"LimbicNutrition Shorts","date":"November 22, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Also called: The \"Children Are Starving In Africa!\" Argument. 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