奴隶贸易使非洲人减少,民族冲突加剧,并导致其经济衰退,到了仅能勉强维持生计的地步。但这是非洲大陆所有问题的根源吗?17世纪时,非洲人口与中中国人口相当.据塞内加尔历史学家姆巴依·格耶 The slave trade diminished Africans, intensified ethnic conflicts and caused their economic recession to the point where they could barely sustain their livelihoods. But is this the root cause of all the problems in the African continent? In the seventeenth century, the population of Africa was comparable to that of China, according to the Senegalese historian Mbaye Gueye