You misinterpreted what I said. I meant that a lot of African countries are better off than a certain super power in terms of food security and nutrition.
Africa and India are indeed quite close (neck to neck even), in most national developmental metrics India is way closer in development to Africa, than to China.
(Many countries in Africa are more developed than India, but there are also richer provinces in India).
Anyway, both the African continent and the Indian sub-continent have close population sizes and are way more fitting for comparison than China and India.
The biggest difference between the two is geography, and due to that India managed to emerge as a single nation, whereas Africa has many different nations.