I know it is still an impoverished country but compared to other african countries it seems much more civilized and developed.
But even more than that it seems like it is much more culturally prominent than other african countries. I never hear about Ghana in casual conversation but I feel like I hear about South Africa more regularly. It has had major historical figures, movies have been set there, people want to travel there. It just seems like it is more out there than the rest of Africa.
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European colonies generally took two forms. In some cases, a relatively small number of Europeans simply supervised native labor for resource extraction. In other cases, the Europeans were the majority of the population, having developed land or displaced populations.
The latter occurred in places like North America, Australia and South Africa. As a result, the cultural, economic and technological development of such places was based on the European standard.
In most of the rest of Africa, the predominant population was native. As a result, it had a cultural, economic and technological development of the native population. When independence and majority rule came, most of the Europeans left and there wasn’t anyone left to maintain an industrialized society.
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