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The reason for Africa’s
poverty lies in its history and the mindset which this has created both inside
and outside its borders. For 3 centuries, the continent was emptied of millions
of its strongest people, captured to work as slaves overseas in order to
develop other economies. This had the arguable effect of delaying the
establishment of economical, political and social structures that might have
been comparable with those found elsewhere in the world.
The abolition of slavery
opened the door to colonialism, which, while in one sense only a different form
of slavery, did bring much-needed benefits such as industrial development,
better education and access to medical care. However the colonising Europeans,
by means particularly of the bias of the education they provided, groomed
Africans to be servants and consumers in a world where white men were the
overlords. Colonization then paved way for Globalization which only benefits
the capitalists whom are obvious the Westerns. Today Africans are better slaves
in their own land.
The result was that African
countries were gripped by impossible debts to foreign regimes, and at the same
time ruled by tyrants from among their own people who in many cases were
supported by those same foreign regimes. As the rulers took control of the
honey pot of the natural resources and forced their countrymen into poverty, the
seeds of civil war were sown.
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