(1)Until the early 1800s, Europeans were in Africa
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(2)I stayed on the coast and couldn’t go inland
(3)The reason was malaria and fever, a deadly plague of heat and humidity in inland Africa
(4)Europeans cannot stand this kind of African climate and disease
(5)I couldn’t dare to go inland and had no choice but to stay on the coast
(6)But in 1820, a French chemist named Pierre Joseph Pellertier
(7)Things changed when we made quinine, a cure for malaria and fever
(8)This quinine can cure malaria and fever
(9)How much to inland Africa that we couldn’t make
(10)We could send people and supplies
(11)After all, quinine was developed and used in less than 100 years
(12)The vast African continent was colonized by the European powers
(13)It’s gone
(14)A pill called quinine has changed the fate of Africa
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