Why was Africa colonized so late?

>>139622937
Nothing useful there except shiny rocks and fancy leather

White people had difficulty taking it over despite it being much closer than the america's because of the logistics needed also unlike the native Americans, Africa had it lots of terrible disease and harsh weather.
It wasn't economically viable till later on.

>>139622937
Which is it niggers, we didn't conquer you for so long because you're so strong or we've been oppressing you for a thousand years or whatever?

arabs had trading posts , the portugese were buying slaves from west africa before columbus went to the new world, and the cape was colonized hundereds of years ago.
back in the trans atlantic slave trade, the outposts were still pretty near the coast, if by colonization you mean taking whole chunks of land, apparently this required :
>paddle boats to get far inland
>something to deal with malaria

maybe the maxim gun etc helped , dont know how essential it was though

>>139622937
>quora
kek. That is just a site where random idiots answer questions. No one with a functioning brain thinks Africa was more advanced than Europe in the 1400-1700s

Diseases like Malaria made it impossible to colonize until medical advances.

There were plenty of coastal European colonies in Africa though.

They had malaria.