Eli5: Why is Africa still Underdeveloped

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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

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But we all started at nothing. So why did those ‘superpowers’ develop into superpowers, while africa did not? ( long before they met or interfered with eachother ). It’s not like their land was not bountyfull..

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