Why Africa is still poor? And why almost every country is poor?
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In part this is because after World War 2 during a time that Africa could join the world in sharing new technologies and building themselves up you simultaneously had African countries throwing off and essentially biting the hand that feeds them (Colonial powers like England, France and Germany) – only to then be turned into a proxy battleground for the Cold War – with USA and USSR in many cases supplying arms to different conflicting sides in each country.
Post Cold War you are left with an Africa that’s not nearly as well off that it can be with lots of weapons about in the hands of Warlords and no sign of USA or USSR coming to fix up the mess that they armed.
Another legacy of Colonialism and the creation of the UN is that country borders were drawn up and still today are being preserved by the European powers with almost no regard for the different tribal ethnicities.
But there comes a time where you can’t hang everything on the Europeans. Africa was backward technologically, tribal and often warlike with the practice of slavery firmly in place long before the Europeans ventured that way.
Jump to today and you now have Militant Islam spreading throughout Africa again arming and dividing countries. And also China buying their way in more and more and more. And China will be seeking to protect their investment in Africa in the future…
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