Caesarean Sections Were Performed In Africa Long Before They Were Standardized Across The World. C-sections were invented in Africa long before Europe, and the rest of the world fully mastered how to conduct them.
The procedure is said to have been started since time immemorial.

When a baby could not be delivered vaginally,midwives and surgeons would turn to C-sections in order to deliver the baby safe and alive. In areas around Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria,midwives and surgeons would perform this procedure.
The midwives and surgeons would sedate

the mother in labor with a lot of banana wine. A knife would be sterilized using heat, while the mother would be tied to the bed for her safety. An incision would be made quickly by the team, and the quickness was to ensure that there would be no excessive loss of blood, and

also that other organs would not be cut. A conflation of sterilized knives which were sharp and the sedation would make the experience less painful for the mother.
During these times women rarely developed infections because antiseptic tinctures and salves were used to clean the

area and stitches were applied. Shock and excessive blood loss were uncommon. However the most reported problem was that it took longer for the mother’s milk to come in. But this would be resolved through friends and relatives who would nurse the baby instead.
Uganda, Tanzania

and DRC were the countries where this was most practiced; and in Uganda, C sections were normally performed by a team of male healers, but in Tanzania and DRC, they were typically done by female midwives.
It was in the Ugandan kingdom of Bunyoro that this procedure was most

documented. The procedure was performed well such that Robert W. Felkin, a Scottish medical anthropologist documented all of this in the book, The Development of Scientific Medicine in the African Kingdom of Bunyoro Kitara.
He witnessed the procedure in 1879 and was captivated by

it. What got his attention was that back in Europe, a C-section was considered to be an option only to be used in the most of desperate situations. At this time, "nearly half of European and US women died in childbirth, and nearly 100% of European women died if a C section was

performed."
To him, this was a marvel that needed to be spread to the rest of the world. And that was done.
It has been said that what Felkin reported in his book is not very much different from what a modern C-section procedure done by modern doctors is like.