You realize I meant 500+ years ago when they first started interacting with Europe, right?
Africa was just mostly European colonies up the 1950s. Historically, The Europeans feared that if they were educated, they would rise up against them and the Europeans would lose their colonies. Post world war 2, every single European nation is in in debt from the war; So the colonies were either given independence, abandoned, or overthrown.
During the Cold War, the soviets wanted to tap into Africa's resources by trying to spread communism their. Soviets would send doctors and teachers as part of a so called humanitarian effort to win support for the USSR and to spread communism. However, the US did not like that, so through proxy wars, anti-communist groups were funded and supplied to fight communists. Eventually, the Soviets gave up and glutted the market with weapons and decided to focus their efforts else war. At this point all, the African's know is war. You have big nations full of smaller tribes which have had long and close histories of friendships and hatreds. In some nations have tribes that are the majority while the minority tribes are lower class and hate the other minority class tribes as well as the majority. Then you have a few of those African Dictators like Idi Amin who had a European educated and saw them selves as kings, then you have those warlords who only care about bring their group to power. So you have all these civil wars and ethnic cleansings because that's all they have known. Before that they were rounded up as slaves and used as servants in the colonies as lower classmen.
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This only 25% of the summary by the way. Take many histories to get the full gist of why it is the way it is today.
