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First off, if you are just trolling, well done, this is top shelf stuff.

If not could you expand on the following points?

What does “tough place by definition” mean?

Which “cultural inclinations” are missing in Africa? Are there any other places that you think similarly don’t have them or this only the case in Africa?

Probably the most extreme example of the horrors of colonialism is Belgian Congo.[1] No surprise that this is one of the most unstable and violent places in the world. [2]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free...

[2] https://countryeconomy.com/hdi/democratic-republic-congo




I am not trolling - and I understand we are approaching an emotional threshold here for some.

Lots of factors ranging from hostile climates, tribal/ethnic wars, political issues, language barriers ... the list goes on.

In addition to this, you have cultural traits that simply make it harder to build (or rebuild) a civilization. I think many people living on the continent would understand what I mean.

Nobody in their right mind denies the horrors of colonialism, but one should not consider all historic events as exclusively negative.

Not much of technology was invented over thousands of years (in sub-saharan Africa). Without colonialism (of some sort), it could be very possible that Africa would have remained in the stone age for the next thousand years.




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