Fun fact: When Zimbabwe was part of the British Empire, it was the most prosperous nation in Africa and was generally referred to as "The Breadbasket of Africa" because the sheer wealth of food produced and exported from the nation. Once the British Empire left and they let a black man rule the country, it's now the absolute poorest country in the entire world.
Fun fact #2: Haiti is the first all-black democratic society, and it's the poorest nation in the Americas.