Here is a news flash for you, they can’t be helped. They are too backward and corrupt. They screw each other and everyone else they can. I saw millions and millions of dollars worth of AIDS medicines ruin in the heat on the docks of Port Harcourt, Nigeria because it could not get through the customs payoffs.
In all of Africa I have been in there is a knack for making even the newest stuff and construction look old and dilapidated. Inside of a year everything new turns into slums.
These are people of the same cultures that sold one another into slavery. There was no need for slave traders to go beyond the beach to get their cargo, it was brought to them.