Whoa, my mind has completely been blown by this woman Mallence! If you dont watch anything else, watch this TedX Talk, she explains quite so eloquently why Africa is "poor" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfnruW7yERA

A country is as rich as its citizens. If you transfered all Europeans to Africa and all Africans to Europe, Africa would be rich and Europe poor. The answer is a capitalistic mindset. You don't get materially rich by accident.

Sparkly you do have a point! I have been told to recommend we all read Capitalist Nigger by Dr. Chika Onyeani https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Nigger

Man this lady is smart .been playing this clip over and over

kweli kabisa. i havent read the rest of the thread but the absence of critical thought is the black african's biggest undoing. africans more than anyone else, heavily defer to the mob or crowd psychology no matter how silly the crowd's position is. we are comfortable with obvious foolishness as long as everyone else is and dare not entertain the unknowns of new ideas.

hardly any are bold enough to pursue an idea that could attract scorn and ridicule by 'society'. the black african was probably too scared to invent a car, plane, engine, bicycle, paved roads, phones, computers, written language, guns, steel etc, because he was worried about neighborhood gossip or what 'society' will think of him. we are yet to come to terms with the notion that the majority can be wrong.

look around your home or office. you'll be lucky if you find 0.01% of the things around you were invented by a black african. even rudimentary stuff like our names, religions and so-called traditions like circumcision are foreign lmao.

no wonder just a handful of mzungus armed with guns came and fyekad the entire continent of hundreds of millions armed with spears. africa lacked a significant thinking/intellectual class and, in my view, it still does. africa's so-called intellectuals are essentially academics regurgitating old ideas. we have a gazillion professors in engineering but cannot build something as basic as a railway line. we cannot even reverse engineer such simple stuff from the 1700s lol. money has nothing to do with it. europeans were inventing groundbreaking stuff when they were much worse off than africans of today.

until black africans change their way of thinking, it will be at least another one thousand years before we catch up with the west. despite africa's decent growth in recent years, what many people dont realize or discuss is that the gap in per capita GDP between africa and the west has actually increased. our imports continue skyrocketing compared to our exports.