A story about how the Italians taught Africans to engage in agriculture:

We arrived there with Italian seeds, in southern Zambia, in this magnificent valley stretching down to the Zambezi River. We taught locals how to grow Italian tomatoes. We were surprised that the locals in such a fertile valley did not engage in agriculture at all. But instead of asking them why they didn’t grow anything, we just said, “Thank God, we’re here.” Just at the right time to save the people of Zambia from hunger.

And, of course, everything grew great in Africa. We had these wonderful tomatoes. We told the Zambians: See how easy it is to engage in agriculture.
When the tomatoes became beautiful and ripe and red, suddenly at night about 200 begemots came out of the river and ate everything.

We said to the Zambians, “O my God, Behemoth!
And the Zambians answered, “Yes, that’s why we’re not doing agriculture here.”
Why did you not tell us?
You have never asked.