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Sometimes I feel that africa would be in far better shape if the empires had never collapsed. They took with them all the skills and people required to run a country, just leaving the more impressive buildings that governments promises are based on.
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true enough, redrawing the borders of ancient tribal nations to suit themselves is a large part of the problem, minority tribes that were placed in power by the British, French, Dutch, etc because they supported Europe couldn't hold on after the European powers left, and the vacuum caused a significant part of the civil warfare. Jump ahead 60-100 years, add in arms trafficking, religion, corruption, etc and we've got a kettle that we can't put the lid on and no simple solution. (sending aid isn't really a solution as the warlords routinely confiscate the food/clothing/etc and distribute it only to their people. Trying to control where the aid goes resulted in the events covered by Blackhawk Down which was later made into a mostly accurate movie.