African Entrepreneurship Chronicles
Chapter 157

Burning (Content May Cause Discomfort)

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Bang... Bang... Bang...

In Northern Kenya, gunfire erupted everywhere.

Falling with the gunshots were Africa's wild animals. To clear grazing land, the buffalo, lions, warthogs, hyenas, leopards, zebras of the African grassland...

Any animal that could be seen suffered disaster. The East African colony first set a great fire, directly igniting the grasslands.

The animals were driven in all directions by the blaze. The unlucky ones who could not escape were buried in the sea of flames, while others lay half-dead on the scorched earth, groaning in agony.

As for places the fire could not reach, the East African immigrants had to deal with them personally.

At present, life for East African immigrants in East Africa could be summed up in three things that had become routine: farming, fighting, and setting fires.

Farming was naturally East Africa's foremost task; that was easy enough to understand.

Fighting was to obtain land. East Africa frequently clashed with indigenous forces, so it would have been strange if the East African colony did not fight.

Setting fires was rather bizarre. Clearing land required fire, opening up settlements required fire, and destroying the animals' living environment still required fire.

Nothing saved more time and effort than setting a fire on the African grassland during the dry season. The whole of East Africa displayed a primitive, wild beauty of slash-and-burn cultivation.

It could be said that the opening up of the East African colony had locked horns with both Black people and wild animals. Whether human or animal, so long as they were local East African natives, they could be eliminated without reason.

Ernst wanted to stress that he held no prejudice against the natives; it was entirely a conflict of interests.

The true masters of this African land were not Black people, but these wild

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