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I think we have a part of responsibility. Of course its not Italians or British guys who are training them and saying "kill you each other", but we screwed their continent with the colonisation:

before the Europeans arrived, those were hundreds of small kingdoms. When we arrived, we divised the continent with a ruler, arbitrarily. Many of those former tribes were torn apart, the west part in a "country", the east part on the other side of an unnatural frontier.

In Niger, for example, there is no Nigerian. There are over 250 ethnies.

Each time, we promoted one of those ethnies: for example in Rwanda, Germans then Belgians worked with the Tutsis (which were seen as the aristocracy) while the hutus were considered as primitives.

As a result, when we left in 1960, we had screwed their traditional social system, we had created an inegal system, they were jealous, and killed each others during 30 years, then in 1994 there was the genocide.

Another factor is that they were not used to our political system and our technology. In a few decades we brought our medicine (in the XVth century each European woman had 6 or 7 kids but 2 or 3 died, then progressively, with the slow progresses of medicine, they had also less and less kids. In Africa, we brought all of this in one generation, they still have lots of kids but the mortaliy has decreased a lot so there is surpopulation)

And there are lots of dictators. Africa is extremely rich (diamonds, oil, gold, silver) so the stake of an election is very important. With the corruption, leaders are so rich that they are ready to kill their opponents to stay at the head of the state.

So, my little conclusion: screwed social system, multi-ethnic countries, surpopulation, corruption and dictators lead to war, and perpetual war lead to extreme poverty.


(looks like the Habsbourg Empire: multi-ethnic, with a nation (austria) leading the others, perpetual wars with neighbouring countries, weakness, and then explosion of the system (WWI) )

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