Do you think Africa would be better off...

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...If it was still a colonial possession of Europe today?


 
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No. That's one of the reasons why it's so fucked up.
Yeah, I hear that's one of the main reasons Africa is currently in the state it is in. How did colonialism screw Africa up so badly anyway?


 
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I was just asking a question hoping to be educated on the subject as to why.


 
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No. That's one of the reasons why it's so fucked up.
Yeah, I hear that's one of the main reasons Africa is currently in the state it is in. How did colonialism screw Africa up so badly anyway?

To sum it up in short, the colonials came in, ran over everybody and everything, really didn't care to put much effort in doing anything decent for the locals, and then set up shop on the south end of Africa, only helping in creating even more disparity after they left.

And they took just about whatever they wanted and sent it all back home, or set up shop.

So now you've got this sort of big divide where southern Africa is slightly more civilized than the north, but all intermushed with tribal customs and traditions and all that. And you've got these exlusive farms that don't actively help or feed the people on africa owned by companies, which instead ship their products out of Africa to the world at large to rake in the free money.

That, loosely, is the deal on things.





 
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Oh yeah and their government and organisations are notoriously corrupt as shit.


 
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Nah, nothing can really save that hellhole for a long time


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Depends. I could compare the transport links in previously colonised African countries to Ethiopia, one that was never colonised.

Basically, Ethiopia has fuck all. The other ones do. Not saying it's a fantastic thing to be colonised, but look at places like Kenya and North Africa, hell even Libya. They at least had infrastructure to be destroyed rather than nothing.

They would be better off as a country, but the native people living there? Nah...
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West Africa, economically, has been making great strides in recent years.


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No. Europe fucked over Africa hard.


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No. That's one of the reasons why it's so fucked up.
Yeah, I hear that's one of the main reasons Africa is currently in the state it is in. How did colonialism screw Africa up so badly anyway?
Long story short, European powers cut the regions borders worse than a square pizza without regards to tribal relations and similarities. So you have two tribes that hate each other in the same country, hence some of the civil wars and genocides, and similar tribes separated. Same thing happened in the Middle East on some regard.
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No. That's one of the reasons why it's so fucked up.
Yeah, I hear that's one of the main reasons Africa is currently in the state it is in. How did colonialism screw Africa up so badly anyway?
Long story short, European powers cut the regions borders worse than a square pizza without regards to tribal relations and similarities. So you have two tribes that hate each other in the same country, hence some of the civil wars and genocides, and similar tribes separated. Same thing happened in the Middle East on some regard.

This ^^^^

So much this


 
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This is not the greatest sig in the world, no. This is just a tribute.
I'm trying to imagine what modern colonialism involving the major European powers would look like...and honestly, it's looking good for modern Africa.
More doctors and hospitals, actual jobs, better infrastructure, human rights and civil liberties... 


 
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I'm trying to imagine what modern colonialism involving the major European powers would look like...and honestly, it's looking good for modern Africa.
More doctors and hospitals, actual jobs, better infrastructure, human rights and civil liberties...

It would require a complete redraw of the African map


 
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I'm trying to imagine what modern colonialism involving the major European powers would look like...and honestly, it's looking good for modern Africa.
More doctors and hospitals, actual jobs, better infrastructure, human rights and civil liberties...

It would require a complete redraw of the African map


 
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>implying that's not exactly what Africa needs

>Implying the governments recolonizing would even recognize this essential need.

As a globe, we've been funneling billions into the continent in hopes that more money is going to fix a problem that is much deeply rooted.


 
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This is not the greatest sig in the world, no. This is just a tribute.
I'm trying to imagine what modern colonialism involving the major European powers would look like...and honestly, it's looking good for modern Africa.
More doctors and hospitals, actual jobs, better infrastructure, human rights and civil liberties...

It would require a complete redraw of the African map
That's only a problem when you remove the centralized power of the colonizing nation.


 
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I'm trying to imagine what modern colonialism involving the major European powers would look like...and honestly, it's looking good for modern Africa.
More doctors and hospitals, actual jobs, better infrastructure, human rights and civil liberties...

It would require a complete redraw of the African map
That's only a problem when you remove the centralized power of the colonizing nation.

Not quite. At some point in the future, assuming we did recolonize the continent, Africa would have to stand on it's own.

Keeping the same borders as now, with the same waring tribes and ethnic divisions, would only return us to where we are now.


 
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>implying that's not exactly what Africa needs

>Implying the governments recolonizing would even recognize this essential need.

As a globe, we've been funneling billions into the continent in hopes that more money is going to fix a problem that is much deeply rooted.
I was referring to redrawing the map

As was I. No one seems to recognize the need to redraw the map as we continue funneling money in, fixing nothing, and asking "Why will nothing work?"


 
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This is not the greatest sig in the world, no. This is just a tribute.
I'm trying to imagine what modern colonialism involving the major European powers would look like...and honestly, it's looking good for modern Africa.
More doctors and hospitals, actual jobs, better infrastructure, human rights and civil liberties...

It would require a complete redraw of the African map
That's only a problem when you remove the centralized power of the colonizing nation.

Not quite. At some point in the future, assuming we did recolonize the continent, Africa would have to stand on it's own.

Keeping the same borders as now, with the same waring tribes and ethnic divisions, would only return us to where we are now.
You're assuming that Africans can't be advanced as a people over generations.

If we're doing this right, we're in it for a long fucking haul.


 
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Africa would be better if Kony was still alive


 
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Africa would be better if Kony was still alive
I believe he is.


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I'm trying to imagine what modern colonialism involving the major European powers would look like...and honestly, it's looking good for modern Africa.
More doctors and hospitals, actual jobs, better infrastructure, human rights and civil liberties...

It would require a complete redraw of the African map
What do you think the map of Africa would look like if it wasn't colonized?