Why Africa is still poor? And why almost every country is poor?

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Why Africa is still poor? And why almost every country is poor?

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Answer 1

The story of Congo is instructive here. The Belgians forbade any meaningful education there. Thus, when they left in 1960 and took essentially everything with them, there were only six trained physicians. In a nation of over 15 million people, covering an area of 1,330,000 square miles.

Clearly, the damage of the colonial period continues to reverberate around the continent.