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Wheat, rye, barley are just grasses. The only thing special about them is those are the strains that men chose to cultivate. There's grass in Africa, my dude (sorghum for instance).
Ultimately your reasoning here is backwards; Africans didn't develop an agricultural society of any significance so therefore the conditions must have been "hard mode" (they weren't).
That's going from the effect to the cause, which rarely pans out. Any inconsistent fact, like that they continue to fail at farming by rejecting good farming practices, throws it into doubt. A yearly $4 billion loss of minerals in 37 countries over 30 years, anywhere else that would take a concerted effort to fuck up that badly.
Finally, if you want to find out the real reasons why Africa can't farm watch Empire of Dust (2011).
Those aren't just grasses. Those cash crops have very high protein content. That's critical for development in feeding nutritious food to a society. High carbs, but unreliable protein doesn't help a civilization develop.
No, you're choosing to go backwards for no reason. Farming in Africa has always been hard, even when the Boers, French, British, Romans, and Greeks were doing it. There's obvious reasons for that, most of them geological, climatological, and ecological.
Collectivized farming is always pretty bad and does this kind of shit regularly. It's why there are farmer protests in Europe right now.
Minerals aren't relevant to this discussion.