Serious question. When you go on Google Earth and look at Sub-Saharan Africa—Nigeria, DRC, Cameroon, etc.—you don’t see endless farming fields like you do in the Great Plains of the USA, the Indo-Gangetic Plain of India, the North China Plain of China, the Pampas of Argentina, or even the Western Siberian Plain of Russia/Kazakhstan.

Instead, it’s just forests, jungles, and scrubland. No crop grid, no large-scale irrigation, no combine harvesters, no monoculture fields. You’ll see some tiny, irregular subsistence plots near villages, maybe some slash-and-burn farming, but nothing that even remotely looks like it could feed 1.5 billion people in a decade or two.

Pic rel: Kinshasa—20 million people stacked in concrete, zero surrounding farmland, no visible food production. How is this city even alive?