Isn't Africa one of or most resourceful continent in the world, so what happened? How did this continent end up in such a mess? Is it the people? Is it the climate? Is it outside forces ? I think I know the answer but what are your thoughts.
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Every country did a land grab on it. Barely anyone developed it except britbongs in the south. Then when the rest of the natives went to brit bong land they eventually overthrew shit. Now china is dumping all the iphone money into african infrastructure and taking all the gravel.
No, it's just really big. When compared to most places of the same or smaller size Africa is really resource barren.
It's always been a mess. The Mansa Musa being the richest man in history myth is largely something that was made up to make Black Americans feel better.
Africa is incredibly diverse, which is one of it's biggest problems because of how much instability and violence that causes.
lol nope. European and now Asian interference is the only thing that has brought some areas of Sub-Saharan Africa into second world status. I mean, sure, there were awful things done to some African peoples but colonialism was a overwhelmingly net positive for the Continent.
Toss the question on its head. What hasn't happened to Africa? I think all they have missed out on is nuclear war - the Japs have that grievance cornered ATM; but give the Africans time.
I think I catch your drift, but wasn't the second world the Comecon countries?
The problems in Africa can be contributed to a lot of things. Most of which be contributed towards blindly drawing borders with disregard for tribal or ethnic boundaries during the scramble for Africa by European Powers. You've also got the way too rapid pace of decolonization after WWII, the internal strife and corruption following decolonization, and now China sinking it's teeth into Africa.
Yeah, it's not a perfect term to use due to it's political baggage but I was using it to mean better than 3rd world.
Oh gosh no. Africa's basically a giant hunk of iron with a thin layer of pretty shitty soil and a few pockets of better things here and there. This is part of the reason why it's so prone to famine and desertification (though the practices of the humans on it certainly don't help) and why mining costs at least twice as much as it does elsewhere.
That's not entirely true. While the inland parts of the content had minimal colonization because lol malaria, Spanish and French North Africa were pretty developed as were some coastal and coast-adjacent areas of Sub-Saharan Africa. The former are and have been for African countries, comparatively stable and developed. In the case of the latter group: what infrastructure was left to them was left to rot due innumerable nightmarishly complex civil wars between various ethnic/political groups all hell bent on genocide-ing each other, (fueled by American and Warsaw Pact money, arms, and training,) as well as just general ignorance, our outright malice has left them pretty much devoid of basic infrastructure. At least until the chinks started dumping money into the continent.
The way Britain and France cocked up decolonization basically ensured Africa and the Middle East would be a clusterfuck.
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China is running into similar issues to the prior colonial powers; cultural differences or otherwise.
China: Embracing Africa, But Not Africans
The next step for Beijing in its Africa relations is better people-to-people relations.
thediplomat.com
"To improve people-to-people relations, the Chinese government could start by encouraging Chinese companies and state-owned enterprises in Africa to hire 20-30 percent of their workforce locally.
This would stimulate the local economy and stifle complaints of a racialized hiring process amongst Chinese companies in Africa that prefers to import Chinese migrant labor because of complaints of lazy African locals."
So when everyone was developing they empires and dynasties what tf was Africa was doing ? Was it being dunked on other countries even then?
Africa isn't really well suited for the development of civilizations, and not just because it's full of
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Nigga, read a book.
So u saying from day one the people Africa never had a clue about anything and it was always a cluster fuck of poverty, wars and retardation?!
Are you black or something
Yes, I am black. Tf your problem you African or something
I'm Texan.
