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[–] Apathy 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

Nobody stole their resources, because they didn't have any to begin with. That's why the slave trade was a thing. Africans wanted spices, and silks, and god knows what, but only had slaves to trade. And to this day they're still too stupid to extract their own resources from their own lands. This is a people who kills all the whites because food is too expensive, and a black man should be farming Africa instead. And then when all the whites are gone, they starve to death, begging white nations for aid. People have been farming for over 10,000 years, and our toddlers in kindergarten can do it, but not an entire African country.

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[–] wgtt911 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

the chinese are helping them now, and if they think white people are racist just wait

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[–] Mediocrity 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I knew the chinks were good for something...

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[–] eagleshigh 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Nicholas Wade on Africa's troubles.

In Africa, population numbers were higher than in Australia, agriculture was quickly adopted and settled societies developed. From these gradually emerged more complex societies, including primitive states. But because of low population density, these political states did not enter the phase of political rivalry and sustained warfare from which empires emerged in Mesopotamia, the Yellow River Valley, and, much later, in the Andean highlands. The population of Africa in 1500 was only 46 million. The soil being mostly poor, there were few agricultural surpluses and so no incentive to develop property rights. For lack of the wheel and navigable rivers, transport within Africa was difficult and trade was small scale. For lack of demographic pressure, African societies had little incentive to the skills that trade stimulates, to accumulate capital, to develop occupational specialties or develop modern societies. The phase of state and empire building had only just begun when it was cut short by European colonization. (pg. 225)

He writes on page 133 and 134

A major region of slow population growth was Africa south of the Sahara. The continent suffers from a lack of navigable rivers, and disease makes some of the regions hard to inhabit. Some of Africa's chiefdoms had grown into large kingdoms, such as the Ashanti empire in Ghana, the Ethiopian Empire and the Shona kingdom in Zimbabwe by the time Europeans arrived and thwarted their development. In 1879 a Zulu army armed with spears and oxhide shields defeated a British force armed with modern weapons at the battle of Isandlwana. But throughout much of Africa, the lack of dense populations and large scale warfare, two essential ingredients in the formation of modern states, prevented such structures from arising. Africa south of the Sahara remained largely tribal throughout the historical period, as did Australia, Polynesia and the circumpolar regions.

The evolution of human social behavior was thus different and largely or entirely independent on each continent. States developed in the Middle East, in India and in China by around 5,000 years ago, and in Central and South America by about 1,000 years ago. For lack of good souls, favorable climate, navigable riders and population pressure, Africa remained a continent of chiefdoms and incipient empires. In Australia, people reached the tribal level but without developing agriculture; their technology remained that of the Stone Age into modern times.

And

Yet 50 years ago, Africans were as poor as many East Asians . Why has it been easy enough for East Asians to make the transition from modern economies but so hard for Africans?

A major factor is that African political institutions (Wade talks about how Institutions matter more than social structure. Basically, the institutions of the society matter more than the society itself, which the institutions were preceded by swift genetic changes) were destroyed or undermined by colonial administrations that then departed, leaving few workable substitutes in its place. Another factor is tribalism. African countries have not developed the institutions to replace tribalism, an essential development for a moddern state. African populations have not gone through the same Malthusian wringer tnat shaped the behavior of European and East Asian populations. In Africa, population pressure has long been much lower than in Europe and Asia, probably because of poor soils and adverse climates that have restrained food production. State formation, as mentioned, depends on warfare between sizebale poplities that are forced to compete because of geographical contraints, such as living along a long river valley. But intense, large-scale warfare is unlikely to occur until population densities have become so high that people have fewer choices.

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From an evolutionary perspective, African populations were just as well adapted to their environment as were those of Europe and Asia to theirs. Small. loosely organized populations were the appropriate response to the difficult conditions of the African continent. But they were not necessarily well suited to high efficiency economies to which European and East Asian populations had become adapted. From this perspective, if valid, it would be unsurprising that African countries should take longer to make the transition into modern economies. (Wade, 2015: 181-2).

Buy A Troublesome Inheritance. Great read.

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[–] BlackGrapeDrank ago 

TL;DR

sub saharan blacks are low IQ, and cant grow beyond tribalism without a smarter race to help them build institutions and ifrastructure required for modern growth.

Duh.

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[–] LeopoldXXII 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Yeah that argument is ridiculous. While much of the infrastructure whites built was based off of resource extraction, it was still infasstructure. You know what Africa would have if whites hadn't colonized? Nothing. The entire continent would still be getting constantly pillaged by Arab slavers and there would be no infrastructure what so ever. People love to claim how evil whites were in Africa. Yeah, some people may have gone overboard in their disciplining of the natives but that was the price Africa had to pay to be brought into the current era. Ask anyone who works with blacks in a disciplinary setting and they will be the first to tell you that the only thing they respect is firm power.

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[–] Mrgoodall ago 

Mandatory Empire of Dust post https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MkEqI3_J4xg

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[–] eagleshigh 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Nigeria had the Ibo, the Jews of West Africa.

http://www.unz.com/pfrost/the-jews-of-west-africa/

And as @wgtt911 says, the Chinese are all over Africa developing it.

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[–] 7723974? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

They had 10 million years to do something, anything with it and failed