I’ve been to Africa, it is NOT A JOKE to say the high point for most of it was when they were Colonies....
When the europeans pulled out, the locals just destroyed everything built for some quick cash, and their countries quickly reverted to little more than what they had been before the colonialists arrived.
The stupid mythos that some blacks want to believe, that whites came and raped africa and ran away when the wealth was gone is NONSENSE!
Who build the railroads? the highways, and all the other things? The colonialists did... and when they left, the natives for the most part tore up the tracks and sold it for scrap.. not understanding that those railways brought opportunity, jobs and growth.
Same thing happened in the west bank and Gaza when the Israeli’s pulled out. The locals ransacked the places and all the infrastructure that had been built was destroyed.
IF you believe Africa would be this grand place had it not been colonized, you have never ever been to Africa.
Its an amazing continent full of immense resources and wealth, run by tribal mentalities, large swaths captive to Islamic beliefs that keep them repressed and broken.
Its not coincidence that South Africa, the place that was made a pariah due to apartheid is still one of the wealthiest nations on the continent. Had the Dutch just fled, and all moved back home in the 60s, it would just be another Chad or Congo...
Africa is not a mess because whites colonized it... its a mess because it hasn’t gotten past its tribal inclinations.
Um...Belgian Congo. Some horrible things were done to Africans by Europeans.
That having been said, your point about it taking Europeans to bring Africa into the modern world stands.
Islamic colonialism has much to blame for Africa’s current condition.
Totally agree. In the few areas where Brits or British-trained Indians still run things in Kenya and Tanzania, it is paradise.
As an example: http://www.elewanacollection.com/
Also, in Israel, any new residential town could pass for a new upscale American town in the desert areas of Arizona or New Mexico.
100 meters East, a “Palestinian” town would make Detroit look good.
Communist imperialism, Islamic imperialism, and black nationalist dictatorships are the ‘diversity’ that replaced so called Western imperialism.
It wasn’t imperialism that angered the Left. It was The West.
Tribalism is ‘good’ if you can claim to be descended from ancient royalty.