"As long as you have women under conditions where they don't feel any sense of value, no self-worth, except as mothers, except as baby factories, they'll have a lot of children because that's the only way they can prove they're worth something." Isaac Asimov: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zMxNdcwafA
Western nations have acted abhorrently by the assumption that Africans have valueless lives and need saviors. No thanks. We would do better to understand and be influenced by them in this area.
Then why is the fertility higher in places with fewer resources? Is hope higher there?