Just what the fuck is Africa's problem?

I'm not there giving all the girls my BWC.

It's the white devil of curse

they literally don't have any bears

>>70657676
lack of arable land and a long history of being fucked by stronger international powers.

Why ask this here? Nobody knows anything about Africa here. Nobody has even read a book about Africa here. Nobody here will know anything about Africa unless Japan makes an anime about it.

>>70657694
heck yeah

>>70657676
The places that already had a lot of great empires (basically West + Egypt) have very few excuses
as for sub-Saharan, there are a few things that I've seen discussed on /his/ a lot.
Shitty soil, rivers that don't have much water/flood unreliably, extremely little contact with the rest of the world until the 1900s (this one is huge, there is a possibility that this not happening could have negated the first two), and the colonial powers that claimed land there in the 20th century (for the most part, and still doing it to an extent today) milking the land of its raw resources while doing next to nothing to teach the locals about having a good nation AND sticking tribes together that historically were always finding reasons to pick fights with each other.

Not enough pornography to help me discover the other women

>>70657676
The flags are all in the wrong places

>>70657928
It's Africa, nobody besides autists care to take a glance at its geography or history

>>70658016
autists, or people who want to help and fix the major fuckup that caused what we know as >the continent of Africa in modern times

>>70658035
The people that can fix it, even here, are benefiting immensely from not fixing it

>>70657676
Poverty, sustained by an economy managed by foreign corporations and corrupt local elites. Economically, Africa is still a western colony.

Africa before colonialism was less developed than India, the Middle East, or Southeast Asia. This means that there was fewer local hierarchies and institutions for European powers to make use of. With the exception of the Muslim Emirs in British West Africa and a few strong monarchies scattered around the continent, these powers constructed new institutions entirely from scratch. More Brits actually served in West Africa than all of India, because there were so many fewer educated Africans they could work with.

Some colonial powers like France and Portugal had grand ambitions of importing European values and cultural norms to their African possessions, but colonialism was always about the money. Development and education was meant to facilitate resource extraction, not nation-building. Essentially no heed was paid to native African standards of living.

After WW2, European powers began relinquishing these possessions. Colonial provinces became nation states, and former power structures vanished overnight. This power vacuum almost invariably led to massive disarray. Countries in which one ethnic group had been favored by the European colonists (such as the Tutsi in Rwanda) now found their privileged status in jeopardy. Countries in which Europeans held complete control were now split between different ethnic, religious, and political factions vying for control. The complete absence of any democratic or liberal tradition made statebuilding incredibly difficult. One of the most serious problems was a near-total lack of education.

Upon Congolese independence, there were only a handful of college graduates in the entire country. European nations were still devastated by the recent war, and thus unwilling to spend money helping those former colonies along.

Instead, Africa found a new set of friends.

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>>70658058
>Sudanese
kek
all lame bantz aside, those people are only benefiting short term. If Euro/East Asian values teach anything, they teach that Long Term Investment > Short Term Investment. Someone needs to get these people to wake the fuck up and Invest Long Term.

>>70658063
Pretty much this, why sell Sudanese gold for the purpose of infrastructure development and social welfare, when you and a conglomerate of foreign businessmen can split both ways?

Despite a massive gold boom, not a single cent has been poured to social advancement, yet the budgets of the Intelligence, Military and Police have multiplied exponentially

The question is, /int/, where does nationalism come to play, to end corruption?

>>70658124
Why are you pointing out my nationality to discredit me? I wouldn't do that to you.

And I meant that African governments themselves benefit immensely, they withhold education and fortify security services for the sole purpose of losing this cash cow

>>70657676
For starters, it's filled with Africans.

>>70658159
not* losing

>>70658167
At least you have the Norwegian government investing your oil revenue, and not siphoning it towards certain pockets. Otherwise you would not have been as prosperous.

(Unless you're the American immigrant)

>>70658159
what, I mentioned that those were lame bantz. As in not serious and incredibly low effort.
also desu I'm half Kenyan
As for the Gubment, I know what you mean. Kenya is literally capable of being a continental superpower within the next 30 years (if they fix their shit right fucking now), but the government is so corrupt and selfish that they don't even want to pay public health doctors (one of the main proffesions that keeps people alive) a living wage
it's motherfucking stupid, and the people know it. But nobody is fucking getting off their asses and doing anything about it. goddamn

>>70657676
>>70658063
Since the 1950s, the vast majority of foreign interest in Africa has been corporate. Companies such as Dow Chemical and Michelin Tire made great use of the vast natural wealth of Africa, often in exchange for bribes. These bribes were not always direct payments to local African leaders. Sometimes it was more insidious, through the construction of roads or docks constructed for the exclusive use of these corporations. Many Africans have become very wealthy through this arrangement, but most have not. Because trickle-down economics does not work, postcolonial dynamics of exchange bring very little capital to the masses who need it most.

All the while this was happening, the global power structure had come to center around two great poles - Moscow and Washington. While most of Africa's economy participated in the capitalist market system that benefited America and its allies, the end of formal colonialism threw African production into chaos. State-held European companies quickly privatized amidst decolonization could not always survive without government assistance. Political chaos also put investments at risk. Many corporations used and still use local surrogates to protect their interests. Usually dictators... by there is no African warlord who does not have some kind of Western backing.

Soviet and later Cuban interest in the continent led to grassroots movements for socialism. While this led to the rise of some capable and beneficial Marxists like Kwame nKrumah and Thomas Sankara, it generally led to confused and dictatorial regimes which tried unsuccessfully to apply Soviet policies to their pre-industrial economies. American subterfuge and greedy tribal elites helped many of these leaders along their path to failure, though we should deny individuals like Mengistu the agency to fuck up.

The end of the Cold War left capitalism prevalent in Africa, allowing nations significant development, albeit slowly and unsteadily.

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>>70657720
>history of being fucked by stronger international powers

literally untouched until the 19th century

>>70658256
I see, sorry about that. But that's a bit too optimistic

Like the Canadian above me implies, we're incapable of a higher social organization, the one necessary to achieve modernity and progress, the Arabs suffer from this to a much lesser extent.

>>70658308
>uncapable
nah brah nah
we are, it'll just take some time to really settle in and work like a well-oiled machine
also, take comfort in this fact:
even if we get to East Asia levels of wealth and an amazing society where everyone is happy an based, anons on 4chan are still gonna shit all over us, because this is 4chan. Everyone gets shit on here.

What sucks about the third world is that there's no sustainable model for development. The only way for a poor, exploited country to become rich is to go through a long and painful period of development and then take on the role of exploiter. With the exception of the few remaining socialist countries, pretty much everywhere in the developing world is trying to do this. Korea, Taiwan, and Japan succeeded, but with massive growing pains and substantial American assistance. Now that the Cold War is over, we're a lot less willing to give random poor countries $10 billion to construct a highway network.

Resource nationalization paired with other third way economic policies has the best track record, but can really easily go to shit. The examples of Venezuela and Zimbabwe show that seizure of corporate property can actually make the economy more precarious, because failure of nationalized companies to succeed is generally more dangerous.

>>70658291
>it's not history if it's within the past 2 centuries

/pol/, everybody

>>70658372
you'd think that it was /his/ behind that post, but it's not
fucking /pol/

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>continent STILL full of ice-age tier megafauna
You have to kill them off to advance to the next stage desu

M*rocco rejoined the AU

thoughts?

>>70657676
i would answer but my answer is more fit for /pol/

>>70658291
pick up a history book m8

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>>70659126
they did?

>>70659126
FREE SAHARA

>>70659136
What would you know?

>>70657676
>water
>sun
>animism
>islam

you name it

homos and the pope