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If this is one of the most devastating aspects of colonialism, then colonialism must not have been very bad.

Before we have a conversation about this, I urge everyone to research the degree of soil depletion in formerly-colonized Africa, and then compare that to the degree of soil depletion elsewhere in the world (including never-colonized parts of Africa).

(For bonus points, research how much of that soil depletion occurred since the end colonialism).

The numbers are widely available.

Colonial crop management was a boon for native Africans, not a bust.