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Travel and trade is driven by necessity. If everyone had everything they needed on their doorsteps people wouldn't go anywhere. That is why the Africans didn't and they Europeans did. Africa has mild weather and bountiful food supply all year round and space was not a problem for expanding populations. They didn't need to go somewhere else to find something because they already had it all. (I could go into this further but for the sake of brevity this is as far as I am going with this example.)
On the way to the Far East (in search of TRADE - because they didn't have everything they wanted or needed) the Dutch and Portuguese happened along the tip of Africa. Soon every colony imaginable had its finger in the pie: France, Belgium, Germany, Portugal, England, Italy, Spain. Africa didn't know what hit it.
Add to that, Africa was subjected to a 350 year long trans-Atlantic slave trade where millions and millions of its people were taken as just another resource. It was actually a wonderful system in its simplicity because everyone benefited by receiving something they wanted. (Except, of course, the millions of people who were traded in order to keep the system running.) And the traders grew richer by the century.
No other continent has had to endure pillage, plunder and exploitation to the extent and time over which Africa has.
Here is a nice image to see who really owns Africa.
I think the question we should be asking is not, "Why is Africa so poor?" but "Why are the foreign companies involved in Africa so rich?"
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I believe Ethiopia has had some success in developing the groundwork to become a major center for light industries, which could springboard it's economy to other forms of industrialization like many East Asian countries have done. Though with the recent unrest, I'm not sure if it'll succeed in that.
http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/a...zation-pay-off
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Sure. All that happened and I agree that Africa has suffered tremendously from colonization and exploitation by foreign powers.
In the end, I think the main reason for Africa's general backwardness and lack of development is that for many reasons, large commercial civilizations never developed there, not on the scale of Eurasian civilizations, though there were certainly cities and kingdoms that had some level of development. So because their societies never dealt with such large levels of organization, it has significantly impacted their development.
History isn't over however. There is a chance that African societies will eventually develop these necessary traits to become successful in economic development. We will see.
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Let's hope Africa never develops into anything like the rest of the planet. We humans have too much to loose.
Last edited by frankhammer; 11-12-2016 at 07:03 AM.
Nine out of ten concerns are completely unfounded.
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No africans didn't do that because they were unable to reach the level of development necessary for trading and explore new place.
Yeah africans had everything they need.
Yeah because europeans in another hand didn't suffer at all from slavery. North africans and ottomans never kidnapped south europeans to put them in slavery.
And that's african themself who put other africans in slavery to seel them to europeans on the coast of africa.
Africa was out of any war create by europeans during a very long time and yet they create no civilization.
Should we apologyze to manage well our companies?
Thoses companyes didn't impose any contracts to africans. They freely accepted it.
Now I read this I'am glad you didn't have any european citizenships. We have enought people like you in europe. Please stay in africa.
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