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Originally posted by CDSmith
So, it is the fault of the French and the British? Interesting. Of course there is the opinion that they "left the buggers high and dry", but after gaining the independance they desired for so long one would think the next course of action would be to establish order and build the kind of country they've always dreamed of rather than burning pillaging raping and killing each other.
Your post is chock full of reasons, or excuses depending on how one thinks..... but I'll say this though.... it's never too late to start down a better path. As someone else said here, African nations are rich enough in resources that over the next 20+ years some could definitely crawl out of the depths of being ranked lowest and claim their place amongst other leading nations of the world.
Really the only thing stopping them, aside from all the obstacles you mentioned, is the people themselves.
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Who said anything about a "fault"? All I do is explain how the current situation developed. It's not like the colonist countries deliberately created this situation.
It is quite possible that in 100 years, Africa will be the richest region in the world, or maybe SE-Asia. History is not lineair, like I said before. The US have only existed for a few hundred years, and modern western civilization not much longer. 1500 years ago, China could have spoken about western Europe and America exactly the same way we do now about Africa. Things change in history, and to see this as a permanent or even long-term situation is rather ignorant. To expect a major change in a few decades is perhaps even more ignorant.
