Why Europeans failed to settle Tropical Africa

 LOL you cracked me up. It's true...maybe thats why when I was in Nigeria I had such a thirst for Lime Schweppes...I'm enjoying this thread, good one Pinguin. I certainly can see how european origin settlers would not be able to handle the climate. If you think brasil is extreme conditions, just go to africa. It will kick your butt and hand it back to you faster than you can say uncle. Just drinking the water alone could off you in a month, not even talking of malaria, snakes, black flies, all kinds of fun things.

 

I don't think Ethiopia is considered "tropical" Africa as in the video above. Besides, Ethiopia has been part of the Eurasians chains of commerce since the beginning of history.

Yeah. Here in bahia state in brasil we have over 45,000 cases of dengue so far this year and over 70 death I think. It has been raining for over one month almost straight. There are alligators showing up in city center and here where I live poisonous snakes are coming n to the peoples houses there is so much rain. They want to get cozy? I just spent 3 days in fever on the bed with a strange virus that only affected my lower back, nothing else. There are so many ways here to lose your health. I already took medicine for amoebas twice in less than a year, for worms you must basically at least twice a year. Rich and poor all must treat for worms as they are spread even by inhaling. Doesn't matter your hygiene or diet tho it can help you to wash hands and have good sanitation, try to bleach your fruit and vegetabel.  For my friends in nigeria it is worse as they get malaria all the time. I don't even want to know about the worm problem there, here is bad enough. Ones that get under your skin and burrow, others that make like a road map as they travel and itch like crazy.

 

Read the thread and see the movies first, please.

We are talking why Europeans didn't settled in Tropical Africa. Caucasians settle in Etiopia, the Maghreb or South Africa with no trouble at all. Moving to tropical Africa is another matter.

In the case of Amerindians, I am sure you aren't aware of natives riding horses and attacking Europeans with cavalries.

 

Anyways.

The Americas, in the other hand, had excelent lands and a wheather similar to Europe.

 

P.D.: you keep saying Europeans had some sort of superiority on Native Americans. That's not true. The simple fact is that the lands of the Americas looked a lot more promised that ecuatorial Africa, and for Europeans a lot more healthy as well.

 

In fact, Europeans never settled in Northern Australia or in the Yukon in great numbers either. Too bad weather.

 

 

I have a friend who participated in archaeological excavations up in the rainforest of Middle America. He was infested with some flies that lay their eggs under his skin. Then these eggs became larvae and crawled under his skin. Still when he left he had these things crawling in him. Sometimes they just surfaced as flies and flew away. The last of them he needed help from a doctor to remove.