Eli5: Why is Africa still Underdeveloped

Question

I understand the fact that the slave trade and colonisation highly affected the continent, but fact is African countries weren’t the only ones affected by that so it still puzzles me as to why African nations have failed to spring up like the Super power nations we have today

In: Economics

Answer 1

You’ll get a much better answer from /r/AskHistorians than you will here (and it will still be easy to understand)