Africa is a huge continent, the main inhabitants of which are people of the Negroid race, which is why it is called "black". Tropical Africa (about 20 million km 2) covers a vast territory of the continent, and divides it with North Africa into two unequal parts. Despite the significance 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 movement on them is carried out only with the help of cars, 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. These are humid equatorial forests, and tropical deserts of Africa, and huge wide rivers, and wild tribes. For the latter, the main occupation is still fishing and gathering. All this is tropical Africa, the characteristics of which would be incomplete without its unique animal and plant life.peace.
Tropical forests occupy a solid territory, which, however, is decreasing every year due to deforestation of this precious pearl of nature. The reasons for deforestation are prosaic: the local population needs new areas for arable land, in addition, valuable tree species are found in the forests, the wood of which brings a good profit on the market in developed countries.
Impenetrable forests entwined with vines, with dense lush vegetation and unique endemic flora and fauna, shrink under the onslaught of Homo sapiens and turn into tropical deserts. The local population, occupied mainly by arable farming and animal husbandry, does not even think about high technologies - it is not for nothing that the emblems of many countries still contain the image of a hoe as the main tool of labor. All residents of large and small settlements are engaged in agriculture, except for men.
The entire female population, children and the elderly, grow crops that serve as the main food (sorghum, corn, rice), as well as tubers (cassava, sweet potato), from which they make flour and cereals, bake cakes. In more developed areas, more expensive crops are cultivated for export: coffee, cocoa, which is sold to developed countries both as whole beans and squeezed oil, oil palm, peanuts, as well as spices and sisal. Carpets are woven from the latter, strong ropes, ropes and even clothes are made.
And if it is so difficult to breathe in the humid equatorial forests due to 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, which stretches across the territory of 10 countries. For several years, not a single rain fell there, soil erosion and deforestation, as well as the natural death of the vegetation cover, led to the fact that this area turned into a practically scorched and cracked barren wasteland. The inhabitants of these places have lost their main means of subsistence and are forced to move to other places, leaving these territories as zones of ecological disaster.
Tropical Africa is a unique part that includes a huge territory, unique and original. It is polar different from North Africa. Tropical Africa is still a territory full of secrets and mysteries, this is a place that, once seen, it is impossible not to fall in love.
