eli5:why is Africa generally poor compared to the rest of the world.

Question

Africa has a lot of natural resources but has always relied on foreign aid. Nonetheless has famine, poor road network, poor Healthcare etc. Please explain.

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Answer 1

Population growing faster than the economy. That’s a contemporary problem.

Africans kingdoms used to be organized around selling slaves, which limited developments, until European outlawed slavery in most of the world, which was very damaging to African economies.