Tropical Africa in all its diversity

Africa - a huge continent, the main inhabitants of which are people of the Negroid race, that's why it is called "black". Tropical Africa (about 20 million km 2) covers the vast territory of the continent, and divides it with North Africa into two unequal areas. Despite the importance and vastness in the territory of tropical Africa, there are the least developed countries of this continent, the main occupation of which is agriculture. Some countries are so poor that they do not have railways, and they are only carried by cars and trucks, while residents move on foot, carrying loads on their heads, sometimes overcoming considerable distances.

Tropical Africa is a collective image. It contains the most paradoxical ideas about this region. This is the damp equatorial forests, and the tropical deserts of Africa, and huge wide rivers, and wild tribes. For the latter, the main occupation so far is fishing and gathering. All this is tropical Africa, the characteristic of which would be incomplete without its unique animal and plant world.

The rainforests occupy a solid territory, which, however, decreases every year due to cutting down this precious pearl of nature. The causes of deforestation are prosaic: the local population needs new territories for arable land, in addition, valuable trees of trees are found in the forests, the timber of which brings good profits in the market in developed countries.

Impenetrable forests, lined with lianas, with dense lush vegetation and unique endemic flora and fauna, shrink under the onslaught of a reasonable man and turn into tropical deserts. The local population, engaged mainly in farming and animal husbandry, does not even think about high technologies - it's not for nothing that the image of a hoe as the main tool of labor is still present on the arms of many countries. All the inhabitants of large and small towns are engaged in agriculture, except for men.

The entire female population, children and the elderly, grow such crops that serve as the main food (sorghum, corn, rice), as well as tubers (cassava, sweet potato), from which, after making flour and cereals, bake flat cakes. In more developed regions, more expensive crops are cultivated for export: coffee, cocoa, which is sold to developed countries as whole beans, and squeezed out oil, oil palm, peanuts, and spices and sisal. From the latter weave carpets, make strong ropes, ropes and even clothes.

And if in the humid equatorial forests it is so difficult to breathe because of the constant evaporation of large-leaved plants and the mass of water and air moisture, the tropical deserts of Africa are practically devoid of water. The main territory, which eventually turns into a desert, is the Sahel zone, stretching across 10 countries. For several years, there has not fallen a single rain, soil erosion and deforestation, as well as the natural dying off of the vegetation cover, has led to this territory becoming a windless and cracked barren wasteland. Residents of these places have lost their basic means of subsistence, and are forced to move to other places, leaving these territories as zones of ecological disaster.

Tropical Africa - a unique part, which includes a huge territory, unique and distinctive. It is polar different from North Africa. Tropical Africa is still a territory full of secrets and mysteries, this is a place that once you see, you can not help falling in love.