Why Africa is Still So Poor
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- Africa is rich beyond imagination. Blessed with natural resources from arable land, oil, and natural gas to minerals, forests, and wildlife. The continent is jam-packed with a sizable portion of the world’s natural resources, both renewables and non-renewables.
But its present is marred with abject poverty, with 429 million people living beneath the extreme poverty line, roughly a third of the continent’s total population. Today the land might be burgeoning with riches, but the haunting sites most resonant with Africa are those of starving children with vacant eyes getting fed by food aid workers. Why the stark contrast?
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Glad to see we are not blindly blaming white people for everything
It's really entertaining seeing the history of slavery being taught without any explanation as to how an African came into the possession of a European, chained on a ship going across the Atlantic.
It's like when people explain why Michael Jackson was different when he has those kids in his bed etc
Jan van Riebeeck still haunting Africans 😂....it's called "incompetence"
Liberals will still blame Trump
Sungapore. The only reason the Chinese were there was because if the British. No British, no Singapore. The leadership of Singapore was British educated and the legal framework post colonialisation was English common law. All factors that were the basis of Singapore's success.
No Muslim no Singapore, Muslims defeated communist in Singapore.
Also Hong Kong, which sadly is now CCP controlled
@@EddyA1337 let be real boi Hong kong need china
@@baikeiast5255lol you are smoking some real hard stuff
Would be a valid point, except it doesn't explain why aside from Singapore, pretty much all of East/SE Asian nations are all prospering since devastation of WW2 and end of colonization within 50 years, meanwhile all of Africa is not only still poor but all the areas formerly developed by Europeans are getting worse every year ever since independence with South Africa being the most significant example. We all know the answer as to why, we just cant say it without the comments getting deleted.
Hint: it's because of Africa
It's not poor. Resources have been taken from Africa for centuries yet it remains not only strong in resources, the population is rising. The concept of rich and poor between the West and
Africa is different. Africa is actually rich, centuries of resources taken but yet there is still plenty more. Africa suffered from a human resource loss, a brain drain as well as available labor. And yet the population is growing and the birth rate is strong. Africa is just fine. Worry about the West.
But yet those people can't afford good life @@bigkeno
Try telling that to Sudan. Among others.
@@bigkenoMaybe rising population is an issue when they have food and water insecurity.
@@bigkeno"taken" traded.
Turned into infrastructure that keeps getting destroyed.
I think that it boils down to the politicians. If they are very corrupt (as they are here in the US) society stalls and goes down.
If you look more in depth, China still struggles with its food security
Yes.
that's not a good comparison. China devastated it's soil, hence they can't grow enough food for them selves. That didn't happen in Africa.
@@looseycanon It happened in some parts, though.
@@lloydgush That is irrelevant. They can't feed them selves as a result.
If the Rules based world order ever collapses....well...I'd hate to be anywhere that can't grow it's own food. It'll be known as the "Great Global Famine" and billions will probably starve.
Great video, friend. As a Nigerian, it's so refreshing to hear such such an objective analysis of Africa and it's issues. So many people just automatically parrot the notion that all our problems are due to colonialism or racism while ignoring more important factors like our geography, climate and sociocultural, political, and economic issues. Thanks for your objectivity.
Well said. Its problems geographically are mostly down to mountainous coasts, climate, no navigable rivers, few domesticable animals, disease, and a lack of natural harbours. Today, it's socialism, tribalism, and corruption. And brain drain.
And people like you in that part of the world acknowledging that means that you have already taken the first steps to fixing the problem. I hope more folks listen to your ideas because you have the skills to make a difference.
@@davidford3115 much appreciated 👍
@@orboakin8074 May fortune favor you, and your endeavors to bring about change for the better.
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A combination of factors results in any issue. It’s not just Europe, or just dictatorial rule, or Marxism… it’s a combination of these and so many other things. It’s important to have a video like this to legitimize all angles of the issue.
it's not a combination of anything. it's one factor. it's staring you right in the face.
It's always a combination of issues.
Wait! Are you trying to say it’s NOT the white man’s fault??? Well, that’s different. So that means…Oh My!
Europe has wasted trillions(yes, really) in development aid for Africa for little to no progress, its definitely not Europe's fault.
You, apparently, haven't looked into the reserve vaults.
As an African, I can tell you that is dead aid, that aid has come with economic conditions that have kept Africa as a primary commodity producer. Africa needs trade not aid and interference.
We've said this so many times! We don't want your damn aid, charity or donations! What we've wanted and always needed is fair trade and equal partnerships but you've ignored those for a savior complex. Your multinationals come in here and siphons out billions of our natural resources but give nothing back by having your governments arm twist ours into making unfair concessions and interfering in our domestic affairs
@@zimcoder As an African you should know that corruption by your leaders is the reason for your backwardness.
@@zimcoder africa needs good people in charge. It really isn't more complicated than that.
Who would have thought communism / socialism doesn’t work?! If only there was a plethora of historical examples to learn from.
Yup, just look at all the cOmUnIsT countries there are in Africa. There's... ummm... well you know what I mean.
You need to look no further than the difference between Afganistan and Tajikistan to see how it "doesn't work".
Singapore was Westernized, most of Africa had proxy wars between the West and the Soviet Union.
Ridiculous proxy horseraddish
Singapore had ethnicities Europeans found attractive and exotic therefore Europeans gave more accessibility to Singaporeans and Singapore succeeded in ways Black Africans couldn't.
@manovrsb Singapore is a one-off, small population and strong institutions ,how comes Sir Lanka or the Maldives are not like Singapore which both countries are in Singapores neighbourhood.
@fjtpersian6566 because Singaporeans are attractive , people will spend money on them and will visit Singapore to meet them.
@@manovrsb you are not responding to my point ,how comes Sir Lanka is an economic basket case despite practicality being in the same neighbourhood.
A country's wealth is determined by the intelligence and behavior of it's citizens.
That’s way too simplistic. There are extremely intelligent people in the African continent, other factors apply.
The West has remained fairly strong off of poaching top talent rather than raising it. My engineering class I graduated in was probably 40 % American, maybe even less. Quite a few Asians, many rich Arabs looking to get a degree to get their parents off their back and slack away at home, good chunk of South Americans. Lots of brilliant people and it didn't seem like the majority was from the West.
@@lombardo141 There are other factors but those are the main factors.
Not really, georgraphy matters.
@@Peteypablo6969 OK Beans...
We are so back
I have a hat I wear when I'm "the cat" so I put a second hat on and I'm [that] cat in the hat
@@dsxa918✡️ 🤔
I honestly thought you said "we are so black"
Look at Rhodesia they had a stable currency, a thriving, economy, agriculture, industry, hospitals, airports, railroads, universities, paved roads, plenty of clean, water, electricity, air conditioning, plenty of petrol at all the filling stations, fully stocked grocery store, shelves , no trash on the streets, no graffiti on the buildings and then suddenly everything collapsed.
Rhodesia became. ZimmGhetto
Let's not forget the sanctions that made new country unable to restructure it's debts, acquire new machinery and equipment, access credit for it's industries and barring from being able to partner with most most advanced organisations for knowledge and skills transfer😂😂 but hey you could be right, buddy🤣
And South Africa is becoming Zimbabwe 2.0
@@nyashasamuriwo-bp2mv why should we reward nations when they do bad things?
@@snuffeldjuret then the whole of the West should sanction themselves then!🤣🤣
@@nyashasamuriwo-bp2mv there is a difference between not good and super bad.
it is funny how these countries starve and starve, yet their populations are absolutely booming...
Worry about the 100 milions of poor europeans
The natives have had sub Saharan Africa for 400,000 years and only managed to rise to the technology of building a mud hut. 😂
You cannot blame Europe.😂
You are ignorant. That sentence you have written above, is pathetic.
@@lionelwitherspoon5410he wrote the truth. Look at South Africa… From huts, to skyscrapers and now in the hands of africans is going back to huts, the country can’t be even produce electricity anymore
The rich are getting rich off Africa. That’s the truth
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Exactly. If Africa is poor, why have people been going there FOR CENTURIES trying to extract the riches of the continent? 😂 Stop believing lies.
@@natashadickson4819 OK Felicia 🤣🤣
@@user-rs8ef3gn3i 😃😃😃 Felicia is an American.
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Hint: It Isn't Europe's Fault 🤣🤣🤣
Right it is for sure nor Europs fault. China also was colonized and even poorer than Africa but was able to develope. As long as people think they are a victim they will not change and stay poor. Look at Palestine, since 80 years they feel as victims and expect aid from the rest of the world. With such mentality nothing can change.
European powers messed up China, Japan, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, The Philippines, Malaysia, (Saudi) Arabia, the Gulf States, Cuba, and all those countries are now developing or developed (in the case of Japan and Singapore). Clearly there's something else going on in African nations.
Why are you poor?
Europe: Sets up foreign government grouping feuding and foreign villages in 1 border..
*just leaves without disbanding their own cast system*
Europeans again: see not our faults
@@MotionBankzzz So why didn't those feuding groups split those nations along ethnic lines like the former Yugoslavia? Answer: they didn't want to let go of perceived power over their rivals.
Average IQ
Civility
Tribalism
Nothing to do with IQ ,it's about strong government institutions.
@@fjtpersian6566 i mean... iq is important to make a government institution
@@TheBuffBurger it’s not ,if it was the case Argentina and Lebanon would have been the richest countries in the world .
@@fjtpersian6566Argentina and Lebanon have the highest IQ? Is that really your reasoning?
LoL. Okay...
@@fjtpersian6566also during the Golden Age of Africa which lasted 1700 years during the Middle Age before Nation and State declines that occurred at the same time that Europe began to come out of the Dark Ages and start to explore the world. Nations in Africa were extremely culturally, economically, and militarily advanced. With several civilizations that were US sized empires that lasted several hundreds years. Axum which included Ancient Ethiopia was considered one of the 4 pillar civilizations along with Rome, Persia, and ancient China. So no, it is not "average IQ" I think that bad and corrupt governance after colonization has definitely contributed. Also even though a lot of these countries gain independence, they were and are still tied to the hip and exploited by their former colonizating governments. This is why you see that the West Central African states like Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso, and now maybe even Senagal kick the French (and us Americans) out to form a coalition that could possibly turn into a single state eventually. And the results have been amazingly positive so far. Look it up. There is also the talk of the East African Federation. This includes the countries of Kenya, Rawanda, Tanzania, Burundi, and Uganda. All African countries that are on an amazing growth projectory ans have stable economically progressive governments. These countries could seriously become one single country. The DCR of The Congo is interested in joining which if so would give the federation an Atlantic coast presence and span the entirety of the middle of the continent. South Sudan, and Somalia has expressed interest in joining as well. Obviously these last 3 nations are not anywhere close to being economically and politically stable as the other countries. So that probably wouldn't happen for them until they stablized. But we see where this is going with African states. The current borders for African states that are based on colonial divisions have been a huge detriment due to the borders being drawn without regard to cultural, political, religious, and ethnic considerations. But now I think the future is going to be the opposite. I think that a lot of the current countries are going to conbine with each other in the future to be able to maximize the inherent advantages that they do have. These countries will be mineral rich, will have access to the sea with ports for trading, will transend cultural, ethnic, religeous, and tribal divisions to form national identities. And will combine resources to become exponentially stronger states. I think that the East African Federation and what is happening in West Central African is only the beginning. If so, the future is bright for Africa. But just keep this thought in mind, this is what Muammar Gaddafi was trying to organize for all of Africa before he was neutralized. So we shal see if this happens.
12:18 Take a listen and you will be able to hear that the audio sounds unmixed.
Resulting in the music tracks overpowering the narration.
Africa was (and often still is) a continent of hunter-gatherer tribes killing each other with sticks amd selling survivors into slavery. There was no going lower than this in term of civilization. Africa wasn't "broken", it was always a feral place.
"Heart of Darkness" indeed. Doctor Livingston's misadventures in Africa should have been a warring.
David Livingstone
19 March, 1813 - 1 May, 1873
You can't compare a country to an entire continent.
Australia is an entire continent AND a country. Russia, Canda, and China are all larger land wise than some continents.
@davidford3115 Again, you can not compare the growth and success of one country as Australia to the many countries that make up Africa. The narrator of the video was talking as if Africa is one country it is many countries with many different governments. Singapore, Russia, Canada and Australia are each an individual countries, with one central federal government. You can't compare Canada to Africa. You have to compare continent to continent, or Singapore to a country in Africa.
@@waynenicholas1493 Nice job moving the goalposts.
You made a grossly oversimplified generality and I shot it down. Perhaps you should have made your more nuanced argument initially. If you are going to say you can't compare a continent sized nation to a continent, then you NEED to address the elephant in the room as I did.
Also, Russia is just as ethnically diverse as sub-Sahara Africa, so that argument of one country and central government is merely an academic one. The African Union COULD become a central government if it wanted, but nobody wants to give up their power in order to form a federalized government, not that Russia is really a Federalized government.
@davidford3115 I didn't move the goal post. The narrator in the compares a continent of nations to a single country. I just re-watched the video. Actually, your argument moves the moves the goal post. The video doesn't talk about or compare the African Union to another union, such as EU. Plus, it was your initial reply that compared a large land mass made up of independent countries to single individual countries who occupy large land masses. Their is bo equivalency there. Not all countries in Africa are poor, but as a continent is the poorest continent in comparison to the other continents, excluding Antarctica. But there are countries on the continent that are the road to economic stability and growth
@@waynenicholas1493 Wow, it would seem that I triggered you. That you have to give a proof by verbosity argument instead of a short concise point only further proves my point.
"Brevity is the great eloquence of wit," -Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Europe after the fall of Rome was at tribal warfare. Chieftains fighting chieftains to conquer them and forcing assimilation, becoming petty kings. Petty kings fighting Petty kings conquered and forced assimilation, becoming kings over vast amounts of territory. Centuries later, after a fluid border by marriage, annexation, purchases, etc owned by the monarchs, nation-states were solidified and the borders made static until declared wars.
I wonder what would have happened if Africa had been left to its own devices. Would the various 2000 tribes or ethnic groups have conquered each other, assimilated them, and moved on, wave after wave until there were only 15 kingdoms with fluid borders, and then nation-states and then wars to knock down the number of nation-states to 7?
well a lot Africa would nomadic because the savannah does not support agriculture. before the industrial revolution most countries become rich because they had fertile farm land and easy access to trade routes. with new technological advances unlock new areas for farming. For Northern Europe it was invention of heavy plow ensure it going to get rich. North American native where backward because they were cut off form the rest of the civilized world and tech of civilization had not reach them yet.
Hint: it's because BLACK PEOPLE live there 😂
LOL, J/K... As a black person myself who just so happens to have a naturally sarcastic sense of humor. I think I've kinda earned the right to make self-deprecating, socially sarcastic, jokes such as the one you just read 👍🏾 And if you don't like it, oh well 🤷🏽
You are in better shape than about 90% of the people who are obsessed with race and "reparations". I wish more people were like you, able to laugh at themselves and not take it personally.
@@davidford3115I wish you and your people would cut the checks.😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@samvigil1333 I wish you and your people would stop blaming people today for the wrongs of the past for which they had no part in. I wish you and yours would acknowledge that my ancestors paid in blood to rectify those past wrongs.
Remember, when you point the finger, three from your own hand point back at you.
Basically, Asia is smarter and more disciplined. Africa... Not so much.
So smart but are going extinct lol.
@@pkom6418 What are you talking about? Asia has the largest population of any continent, Africa being a constant failure hurts your feelings huh?
I remember having a conversation a few years ago with my Saudi-born Nigerian friend about the backwardness of Africa. We discussed MANY issues weighing down Africa, but at the end we agreed that by far the most contributing factor is the lack of value investment mentality in most African nations. For example, in an impoverished community, if a family farmed a large patch of land, the community's attitude would be to use the crops to stave off immediate hunger instead of growing the farming activity. This African lack of prudent thinking is why Africa is poor and undeveloped.
indeed, if the surplus food is used to just breed more people, then there is no excess food to drive development.
Spot on
Also do you realize the devastating mental effects that slavery left?
Island, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Israel… it’s all about the people and their culture, how they value education, hard work and society being trustworthy and without religious indoctrination or tribalism
I live in "Africa" and I don't lack a thing. You lot lack critical thinking. We have the fastest rising middle class in the world. We prefer slower economic growth which will not tank our fertility rate.
@@pkom6418 your fertility rate is the problem, you cannot feed, house, clothe, employ and educate all those people. In addition, tribalism, corruption, religious fanaticism and instability in terms of politics and rule of law. South Africa is a perfect example, same like Zimbabwe, Kongo, Nigeria and so on. The fundaments for a prosperous society still need to be developed.
@@danieldpa8484 Lol. I'm Ghanaian, and my country's economy grows decently every year. Very peaceful and fully democratic country. A lot of Ghanaians have a good standard of living, even though there is more room for improvement. I will no longer debate a fool who thinks Africa is "poor".
@@pkom6418 good for you if Ghana is doing better than the rest of Africa. There are huge differences on every continent. In Americas, it’s US or Haiti, in Europe it’s Switzerland or Moldova, in Asia it’s Singapore or Afghanistan… why should it be different in Africa.
Wait, you forgot North Korea who is also in the neighbourhood. 😂
Singapore was a British colony, and since its independence, it has done very well for itself. I don't think that I would have used indignation as a word to describe British rule there.
Jamaica was also a British colony with one of the lowest crime rates in the world back in the 60s. Would anyone care to look up the latest crime statistics ? Go and walk around Kingston.
Bad comparison,Singapore is the size of London and easy to control and Jamaica is in bad neighbourhood,the whole of Central America and carribean with a few exceptions is suffering from a crime problem.
Same reason Detroit, and other cities in America that's went from Great to getto in a few decades!
The auto manufacturers ABANDONED Detroit/Michigan to find cheaper labor in other countries. It became a ghetto when the employers left. The opposite situation is happening in Africa (and outside of Africa) where corporations are expanding.
Not really, detroit has great geography.
Culture matters, but geography does too.
But one only needs to look into haiti and dominican republic to see how culture alone can F things up.
@@lloydgush Get over it, the auto manufacturers made their money in Detroit and then they left. Africa is a vast continent with many countries and many resources to attract investment. Detroit is just a city that was once prosperous. Haiti defeated France to gain independence and it's been kept in turmoil by the sore losers ever since. Haiti and Detroit are small territories that don't compare to Africa.
@@natashadickson4819 detroit has a better geography.
@@lloydgush A dozen African countries have better geography and more investments. Detroit needs an economic revival.
I beg can you do a report on what's had been the relation between africa the WB and IMF and their structural adjustments.
I most admit. This is pretty disingenuous if we are not going to talk about the lasting affects of the arab slave trade, trans Atlantic slave trade, the race for africa which caused fake countries with randomized borders that causes tribal wars and etc. I'm not saying the current population can't be blamed, but you gotta tell the full story just like Haiti.
African colonies happened pretty late and most of the slave trading was fostered by outposts on the coast where coastal Africans would sell their fellow Africans to traders. Its more fair to say that after colonists mostly left or were forced out they never got their shit together
They were stuck with shitty regimes in control being warlords or utterly corrupt that made it very hard to foster stability and growth.
Shitty regimes is what's leading to the west's decline in the form of corruption.
Europe after the fall of Rome was at tribal warfare. Chieftains fighting chieftains to conquer them and forcing assimilation, becoming petty kings. Petty kings fighting Petty kings conquered and forced assimilation, becoming kings over vast amounts of territory. Centuries later, after a fluid border by marriage, annexation, purchases, etc owned by the monarchs, nation-states were solidified and the borders made static until declared wars.
I wonder what would have happened if Africa had been left to its own devices. Would the various 2000 tribes or ethnic groups have conquered each other, assimilated them, and moved on, wave after wave until there were only 15 kingdoms with fluid borders, and then nation-states and then wars to knock down the number of nation-states to 7?
@@Kaede-Sasaki maybe but we will never know.
You have to recognise that our Eurocentric perspective is a result of Europe doing all this at Europe's pace. All the tumult in Asia and Africa was rented 'cold wars' in imperialistic terms, then - in a sense the never sorted themselves out in the exact precedence you're referring to Europe having accomplished this.
ARAB slave trade. Think about that a bit longer.
Just wondering though GeoPolitico, what about Namibia? Is the nation currently stable or what is the state of it?
I would assume it is doing perfectly fine. Botswana is doing great and I get the feeling that Namibia would be similar. The google car is coming to Namibia, that is always a good sign :). Can't wait to experience is playing geoguessr :).
Simple.
Roughly 55 years ago, a (civil war induced) famine struck a part of Africa; that famine was covered heavily by western media (Biafra crisis).
That media coverage signalled the start of nowadays' industrialized "development aid"; the results of that development aid is basically this:
- population grew from 240mil in 1950 to over 1.3bil. (=roughly x5)
- in this timespan, agriculture grew by 200%. (~x3)
[just to provide numbers for classification: The EU, with not even half the population, produces around twice as much food as the whole african continent.]
- Agriculture, up to today, makes up for over 60% of Africa's economy.
In other words: Africans "out-procreate" any growth they can manage to achieve; while (almost) all other regions of Planet Earth at some point of history realized to "only breed what you can feed", that very basic concept never made it's way into Africans' heads: Their economies grow somewhat fast, so does their agricultural production - but their population growth consumes every bit of extra-wealth created, instead leaves the continent with a net-minus in terms of wealth (and food).
you are correct in one area. this one difference between latin America and Africa. latin America is reproducing less and are getting richer. majority of latin American countries are middle income. yet majority of African nations are poor. if they ban polygamy it ensure they would not out grow their agricultural base.
the background music in this video is way too loud in several places making it hard to hear what you're saying.
The 14th century the Old World was decimated by the Black Death. Our ancestors died by the thousands. Black Africa was protected by the immense Sahara.
Long story short: Black Africa did not interfere or helped the people outside Africa. Which was a blessing in disguise because. For Europe's survivors it was the end of feudalism and the beginning of modern societies.
How inhumane it might seem, intefering in other nations with good intentions can be destructive in the long run.
Well, Africa is also the source of some of the worst plagues imaginable. Marburg, Ebola, Plague of Athens, Plauge of Amwas, Trypanosomiasis, Rift Valley Fever, and Lassa Fever jsut to name a few.
So the reasons why Africa suffers is
due to poor resources management,
tyrannical leaders,
poor delegation of powers,
and having a good chunk of the middle of Africa unable to provide agricultural products.
After giving $500 Billion USD in aid from 1960-97 it’s still poor.
other countries also have these problems yet for some reason, they're able to have basics like running water and electricity.
Ask JayZ, Beyoncé, Puff Daddy, Kim Kardashian, Drake, Lebron James, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Rodman, Putin, Xi, Macron, Bernie Arnault, Bezos, Carlos Slim, Modi, Ghandi, Ambani, the Norwegian Scandinavian Sovereign funds, and the US Military Complex.
and Africa has never had an agriculture problème that's nonsense , all those problems are caused by recent climate change
Who would have thought it’s not white man bad 😱
Short answer…Geography
Also stop that geographical nonsense what are cargo airplanes supposed to do , but were we allowed those chances.
Unfortunately in Equatorial Guinea, the "richest" country in Africa, pretty much all of the wealth is in the hands of the country's leading family, while most of the population is just as poor as most other Africans.
Mansa Musa = not a "real life midas" or a myth.
But a historical, well known king of a large and rich culture.
And yes, assumed to be the richest single person by buying power who ever lived.
Controlling 70% of global gold production and in his time helped, I´m sure.
so 1 guy took all the wealth, sounds exactly like africa alright
@@stuka80 What does the continent have to do with it? Just racism?
Ask Elon Musk. Or Rockefeller.
The tendency of powerful people to lie, steal and violence their way into as much riches as they can get away with? Is international.
In Musas case he didnt have to murder millions like some belgian king.
Inherited his title, riches and the gold industry that came with it.
Like Trump, for example. In that regard, not havning "conquered" his wealth himself but just got it from daddy.
In other ways Musa was much more generous.
Gave enough alms in egypt to crash the medterranean gold market.
Africa's only success in building any kind of civilization was Egypt. The sad problem of Africa is not the land, climate, or resources. It is the population.
great zimbabwe, Kingdom of Kush, mali empire
@@Ron_Mcdon I said civilization. But mentioning Kush is funny since it was primarily along the Nile in present day Egypt.
@RonMcdon. Kush was in the same geography as Egypt and was centered around the Nile.
@maybehuman4 actually at one point kush controlled Egypt. Plus today's Egypt is not BC Egypt boundaries.
Wow…Sheba was in Africa, the Zulu Empire, Nubia, Zimbabwe. Your ignorance is astounding
Also the french neocolonial policies can be forgotten.
This is the only time I’ve ever been disappointed in content from this channel. No, colonialism is not to blame. But neocolonialism and the continued policies after countries in Africa were given their “independence” are still in place. France controls the currencies with the CFA in 14 countries, all who have to send billions to France annually and sell their resources below international market rates. Leaders Sankara and Gaddafi to name 2 are assassinated the moment they champion independence just like Latin America. But unlike Mexico who can nationalize its lithium to benefit its people, no African nation that has taken loans from the IMF can do the same with their own resources. Over 10 million Jewish people are victims in the Holocaust and they got a nation. Leopold II kills 20 million in the Congo and Germany kills 500,000 in Tanzania and Namibia with no one to stop them. All of Europe gets help from America to rebuild after WW2 but the entire world uses and abuses Africa and blames them for the results and remedies of their wars. There have been plenty of corrupt leaders in Africa and they were all installed by those in higher power around the world. It’s why the media tried to smear and eventually stopped talking about Ibrahim Traore because he is actually independent and refuses aide
Wow, how insightful. You appear well-informed 👍
So you are just going to ignore the various Bush Wars that have ZERO to do with the West huh?
Finally! A true brother who understands! This should all be common knowledge by now but ignorance and subversion of the truth have all but removed fair discourse
great video
This analysis is so disingenuous! Who control the mineral resources of Africa? The West controls those mineral resources, especially in South Africa. When the Congo achieve independence, Patrice Lumumba declared that his country wants, not only political independence but economic independence. He was soon assassinated by Belgium and the USA. How many African leaders were assassinated or overthrown by Western governments, via coups d’état and mercenaries?
Zimbabwe’s economy was destroyed by the West, through decades of sanctions, resulting in the highest inflation in history, after Germany’s of the 1920s. What was Zimbabwe’s crime? President Robert Mugabe simply gave back African ancestral lands, stolen by white settlers, to Africans. After the West ensured that Zimbabwe could not borrow money from financial institutions to develop, and the country was reduced to poverty, the West declared the political leadership of Zimbabwe was incompetent and guilty of mismanagement of the economy. How typical!
The West opposed every liberation struggle in Africa. The US supplied the Napalm Bombs to the colonizing country, Portugal that fried the African Freedom Fighters in Guinea Bissau, Angola and Mozambique. It was the Soviet Union and China that supported the African armed struggle. The US’s CIA gave the intelligence to Apartheid South Africa, which resulted in the capture of Nelson Mandela. The same Nelson Mandela, whom the West glorifies, was taken off the US Terrorist Watch List, only in 2008.
You pretend that you do not know what France did to African Francophone countries, making them keep the bulk of their earnings in France, and charging them interest to borrow their own money. Thirty years after the end of Apartheid in South Africa, there is still no land reform, and most Africans are landless. Why? The South African political leaders know what was done to Zimbabwe.
When African countries are rich in mineral resources, like the Democratic Republic of Congo, the thieving Western countries plunder the resources, and ensure a cheap supply of labour to continue their exploitation. Thank Heaven for China, Russia and BRICS. African countries now have a chance to utilize their own resources and become wealthy. I am tire of these racist tropes of the most thieving and corrupt people in the world, calling Africans incompetent and corrupt. Nonsense!
An impressive analysis. Warmest compliments. Thank you, sir.
Their geogrqphy sucks. They are also geographically isolated, there tends to be vliffs on the coast, and most rivers are not navigable.
BINGO! Thomas Sowell had a great video on how geography which you point out doomed Africa.
Even if Africa seems large it is actually broken up into several different geographic and climatic/ecological fragments.
African geography is perfectly fine. Has cities interior and around water bodies even in highlands. If you were to think of it, 90% if not all of Europe cities are by a river or in the coast.
@@hizmartyn8957 NAVIGABLE rivers. Most of Africa's rivers are not conducive to river travel very far into the interior because of rapids and waterfalls. The Nile and Congo being the two notable exceptions (they still have cataracts that require portaging). Thomas Sowell uses the Niger River as his example of how the rivers of Africa hamstring its development.
Africa suffers from nations with colonial boundaries drawn with no thought to tribe or culture, poor education, and kleptocracies.
We have in Europe also many borders that do not follow ethnicities.
So why didn't those nations balkanize like the former Yugoslavia? Here is a hint: those in power refused to let go of the perceived control over their rivals.
people dont realize how non dense africa is also. its MASSIVE but not a lot of people.
Well not for long, Africa may not have a large population now but it's growing really fast, faster than anywhere in the world at the moment
Yeah people like to lump Africa as a single country sometimes, when in reality it can fit all of china, the US, India, Japan, the UK, and many other small countries inside it
one only has to compare South Korea in 1960. It was still recovering from the war and very poor compared to many of the African countries that had received their independence at the time.
And how things are now.
Yeah, they are the world's most depressed nation, no thanks.
asians live in both singapore and south korea dont they and japan, and taiwan, and china and ASEAN....while africans live in africa. i wonder if there's a connection there between the success and failure.............
Add lofi music next time the music is distracting
The infographics show guy?
Did you make this video because of the growing anti-western sentiment in parts of Africa and it’s overall lack of interest in the West vs East beef? It seems like a pretty random video drop not to mention the high amount of half truths and misinformation throughout the video.
BRICS and the end of the Petro Dollar. Turkey wants to join and is switching sides because NATO is too racist to ever allow a Muslim country as a member
Can you educate us on the blatant misinformation?
@@fletcherp1844what misinformation? Multiple African countries are joining BRICS and moving away from western influence. The narrative about China exploiting Africa is proven false daily when they and Russia are building infrastructure and not placing conditions on loans that limit national interests. The Petro dollar is gone. The world has seen what western and Europe has done to them and now they have an alternative
You guys need to mix the sound a little better. At about 60% of the video it’s hard to hear what the narrator is saying because the music is so loud.
agreed
6:54 That's not where the Equator is!!??!!
The reason is DNA
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Your ancestors you
@@user-pv2vz3gx6n yeah, the ones that built America and 95 percent of modern technology
Compare Singapore to a continent?
okay, how about we compare not just Singapore but all of East/SE Asia, the story remains the same doesn't it. On one side, practically every nation is prospering, while on the other side....
Too many blacks😂
The Guns Germs and Steel book explains that bad geography is Africa's biggest problem.
Corruption
In order of priority. What determines the success of a nation is:
1. Cultural values
2.
3. Foreign support
4. Government.
Asia developed faster because of its geography and before colonization, a larger percentage of their population was highly skilled.
They also have a different culture than present day Africans.
According to the video #1 food #2 culture
@@cyclesaviorn2700 Can't have the food if the food doesn't exist. That's probably why there isn't a number two lol.
@@uss-dh7909 lack of food means lack of success, its appalling but reality i agree
the story of the oppressed is always gonna be tilted when its wrriten by a descendant/beneficiaries of the oppressor.
7:00 The equator placement is beyond atrocious, that map is 2D equivalent of crime against humanity.
I cant hear the vois over the music is too loued.
Correction: it isn't completely Europe's fault. You can't ignore the long term effects of colonialism.
With the amount of time that had already passed? Yes, you can ignore colonialism... particularly since African leaders prior to colonialism weakened Africa to the state, that colonialism was viable.
Colonialism has very positive effects for countries that have been colonised:
Roads, railways. trains, harbours, bridges, banks, courts, advanced fishing methods, advanced farming methods, mining technology, wide spread of english and other western languages.
@@buddy1155 Ah, yes, the Monty Python argument. Nice
@@looseycanon No, the Thomas Sowell argument. And I DARE you to call him a racist; he is black.
@@davidford3115self hate exists, sell-outs exist
The title is crazyyyyyy
WHAT,speak up I can't hear you over the background music.
One thing the land isn't "brimming with" is decent, civilized people. And THERE'S your reason.
elaborate please
@@Broockle elaborate? Why don't you just ask me for proof or a citation? All you need are eyes.
@@Broockle
You already know, don't act like you don't... Every person on Earth knows the answer.
Muhamhead hated them, said Allah created them for hell.
@@mygodisyahweh8634 who is Mohamed?
Unfortunately you opinion is based on non factual neo-facist ideas and if you watched the video culture has very little to do with it compared to geography and trade
*Africa's situation is not ONLY Europe's fault, but Europe bears significant blame. The creators of this particular video are VERY lazy with the Asian examples. Unlike in Africa, Singaporean leaders were not repeatedly assassinated by Western intelligence agencies (and replaced with incompetent, pro-West puppets) during the transition out of colonialism. Singapore controls its own currency and therefore was able to control its own economic policies. Many "independent" African nations were forced into accepting European control of their currencies. France STILL manipulates African currencies in a way that prioritizes French interests over African interests. Once again, Africa's situation is not ONLY Europe's fault, but Europe bears significant blame.*
The Europeans also are the only ones along with the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to pour 6 trillion in aid into the black hole that is Africa, having saved literal millions of Africans from starvation, dying of thirst, or diseases like HIV and Malaria. Not to mention that while the Africans themselves introduced the practice of slavery, and Arabs brought it to industrial scale, the Europeans were the ones to end it.
Okay so what are those looking to run away from France doing? Seems like they are turning to Russia. Almost like Africa has a history of selling out for very short term gains
" not repeatedly assassinated by Western intelligence agencies" Um, does Vietnam not ring a bell? How many leaders of South Vietnam did the West murder because they outlived their usefulness?
I agree with you that France is still obsessed with neocolonialism, yet the anticolonialism arguments are NOT against them but rather the US and UK by extension. And Eastern Europe is not responsible for the actions of ONE European nation still invested in exploiting colonial territories.
@@davidford3115
1. Why are you citing Vietnam when my primary critique of the video was the narrator comparing Africa to SINGAPORE?
2. The UK’s meddling isn’t as flagrant as France’s, but its hands aren’t clean, either. I can say more on this if you’re interested.
3. I’m definitely not saying Eastern Europe shares blame. Most people who know even a tiny bit about colonialism know that Eastern Europe was not a major player. “Europe” is used as a fast way to refer to the major players in western and southern Europe: UK, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Portugal.
@@ROFusion Because South Vietnam IS a valid counterargument to your contention that political assassinations are what differentiates Asia from Africa. The author may have used Singapore as their example, but I chose to look at OTHER Asian analogues such as South Korea which were WORSE off than Africa following WW2, having been a colony of Japan and just as pillaged. And then you have the interesting situation regarding the Philippines.
I didn't say the UK was perfect, only that the anti-colonialist movement blatantly ignores French, Belgian, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese colonialism. Much like anti-Zionism is poorly disguised antisemitism, anti-colonialism is simply fashionable Anglophobia.
Germany as a colonizing power is a farce. After WW1, they had ZERO territories outside of Europe. Their Asian possessions were confiscated by Japan and their African territories were quickly appropriated by the UK and France.
Likewise, Italy was effectively a non-factor in Africa. To reach their possessions aside from Libya required passing through the Suez Canal which means any war with Britan put their African territories in jeopardy.
Portugal was also an effective non-player in the scramble for Africa. To simply categorize all of Europe and colonizers is sloppy and intellectually lazy.
Singapore also sits on a major trade route, and its success never mentions the dismal conditions of all the foreign workers that make it possible.
So is Djibouti and it ain't anywhere close to Singapore in terms of wealth. Institutions are the answer. Access to trade routes helps, but if you don't have anything to offer yourself, it doesn't matter, that legendary fortunes pass by your nation, nobody coming to trade with you.
okay, then lets take a look at all of East/SE Asia then. Oh almost all of those nations are all either developed, economic powerhouses like Japan and Taiwan or newly industrialized prospering nations like Vietnam and Philippines. meanwhile, Africa....
A few desalination plants can sort out water shortages. Nuclear can give lots of power
honestly, all you need is stability, low crime and low corruption and richest will come from absolutely everywhere.
Africa was even underdeveloped before being colonised, Singapore is small and colonial impact was bigger than in Africa, so after gainning independence there was infrastructure, modern institution and an small mass of educated people (westernized), Africa was to big, infrastracture was build here and there, very diverse in terms of population and laguages, after independence most of it fight in all kinds of wars (political, tribal, etc), big corruption, no stability, cultural very different from westerners, even now when they start to build infrastracture they do not have capability on their own they go to chinese so you have chinese loans, chinese technology, chinese machines, chinese engineers and skilled workers, chinese investment goals (they focus infrastracture for their own economic interests like getting resourses/mining), africans to pay the bills.
What I find more interesting is how people can feel offended when people speak about people who may have some similarity to you but thats all. Because someone calls Africa poor it doesnt mean theyre calling the people bad or poor.
Africa is rich. People have always wanted the riches located on that continent. 💰 It's a lie to say that Africa is poor.
@@natashadickson4819 Why are you telling me that, I never said it was.
@@willz0452 Why not tell you? No offense. 😃
@@natashadickson4819 I was simply pointing out an observation I found interesting that most people don't really look at it, including you apparently. I don't care for all your annoying ass squabbling about whats wrong and right whoever is saying it whenever.
@@willz0452 I never addressed your observation. That was deliberate. I got straight to my point.
Trading routes are the biggest problem. For a continent so large, Africa lacks navigable rivers that prevent any meaningful movement within or for export. Africa also lacks good roads outside some cities and Poor Geography to allow them to be extended. Rail transportation is also poor over long distances and with roads requiring maintenance and guarding from rebel groups. Old tribal rivalries exist and the rebel groups resulting from this overseen by widespread mismanagement just serve to compound the problems.
Some constructive criticism here.... the loud background music is incredibly annoying..
There are too many deserts in Africa.
Same thing on every continent but deserts are not where most people live. Africa has reforestation projects underway including the Great Green Wall project. Africa also has petroleum, gold, gemstones, arable land, rivers and marine resources.
There's an easy answer but i don't want to get banned
Ha, everyone knows the real answer but no one wants to say it. We’ll just keep pretending it’s colonialism or agricultural issues, or whatever else
@@pete6705 maybe it is.😂😂😂
Shipping and infrastructure as well as various unsafe and unstable countries not to mention poverty disease and corruption.
Good stuff, even with the sound issues. At some point in every culture, someone champions opportunities, points a nation to greatness and helps them create wealth and stability. Without that leadership, nations descend into tribalism, poverty, disease and violence. (Like our inner cities in America.)
American inner cities have been abandoned by national and state leadership for quite a long time. Even unions couldnt save the inner cities from what was to come. We need education and unity more than ever. The leadership will come from unity and education to restore the greatness of all backgrounds that we americans originate. We need to elect well educated representation that has actually come from american streets whether it be inner cities to rural dirt roads. Quote me now because ill probably have a "freak accident" for saying this.
@@cyclesaviorn2700 America has spent more on education than the next three nations in the West combined. The problem isn't funding, the problem is fraud waste and abuse in the system. Elected officials at the local level have made embezzlement an art form.
Your treating Africa as one problem when I checked alot of the things here make no sense as southern Africa is the most industrializaed region in Africa but okay be like that
Is that how grammar works?
:Hint : America is not blameless and is no better than Europe:)
Then tell me why America's first experiment in nation building, Liberia is one of the most stable and successful countries on the African continent.
Grains grow in temperate climates, were introduced to Africa within past couple thousand years. Seasonal crops require disciplined planning--otherwise you starve in winter. Different from tropical subsistence farming: food storage is problematic. It takes generations to modify individual responses or tribal cultures. Endemic crime/corruption are examples of learned impulsivity: get it now before it rots or someone else does.
Corn originally grew only in the Valley of Mexico. Now it grows far beyond its original region. Where there is a will, there is a way.
Well, well, well...
The music is 2 loud
Let me tell this people in the comments something factual to what are the reasons: 1.The Politician in Africa 2.The populations values/mindset 3.The spending of money the moment it lands on the hand for booze
The most honest analysis I have seen in the comments. You nailed it!
Lmao. This channel getting paid by some government lol?
Definitely
Massive spurlina farms are the answer!
I don't think so. In order to farm anything, you need to have control over the land, meaning you can't have big animals roaming the lands and what do we have in Africa? Rhinos, Elephants... species that are locally overpopulated to the point, that Botswana threatened Germany with delivery of 20000 elephants over European ivory import rules tightening. With current approach towards wildlife management, which is rather protectionist of large animals, which doesn't take local conditions into account. Ernesto Sirolli had a ted talk about his experience with humanitarian organizations in Africa. They came and wanted to teach Africans basically European style agriculture, locals didn't pay much heed to it, so they tried to show them the results, hoping it would inspire some of the locals to give it a try next year. Well, just before harvest a bunch of hippos ran out of Zambezi and ate everything. The locals then told Ernesto and the crew, that that is the reason, why they don't have agriculture. I'm worried, that in order for Africa to grow economically and particularly agriculturally it needs to rid itself of these large animals in vast majority of it's land, which is proposition too extreme for most people. And that's not even mentioning the logistics of running reservations for these animals, given how things such as ivory or rhino horn would get scarce and therefore valuable, which in turn would kick poaching into overdrive, meaning complete extinction of these animals would become inevitable.
This was an interesting opinion I enjoyed listening to it until the background music drowned out your voice...
I had to stop the video when it asserted, falsely, that most of the world's arable land was in Africa. That is such a lie, I don't know where to begin. Most of Africa is infertile. It's either a desert, mountains, or dense rainforest which isn't actually suitable for farming.
Being that everybody is trying to change history book now who knows what to believe at this point
You sound like infographic show.
You are not going to work very hard on land you dont own to produce crops you must share.
background music too loud.
His voice, it sound familiar to me..
Cannot watch this!!! Crazy background music is so dramatic and distracting. This is the worst example yet. Completely unnecessary
Agree. Terrible choice.
15:30
"Many sided with marxism"
Graphic: "nothing western"
Me: umm, karl marx is german.😂 🧔
So was the infamous Chancellor of the 1930s, so what is your point?
@@davidford3115
You didn't see the irony of African countries saying nothing western and then adopting aspects of Marxism (a western [german] concept)? Its in the video
@@Kaede-Sasaki Marxism may have started in a country NOW considered part of the West, but at the time Karl Marx came up with his flawed theories, Germany was NOT considered a part of the West (Tolkein's Mordor was modeled after Kaiser Germany). And the adoption of Marxism has been wholely an EASTERN bloc ideology, not one associated with the West.
@davidford3115
Interesting, but I would counter that when the Africans were referring to the west, they probably meant all Europe and america. And Germany, like Britain, had colonies in Africa so the germans wouldn't be immune from the hate.
@@Kaede-Sasaki Again, I very much doubt that Africa in any time period would consider Eastern Europe as part of the West.
And after WW1, Germany had ZERO African possessions. It is why the ideology of Germany in the 1930s had nowhere in the world to be exported. It only takes a generation or two for a population to change the target of their animosity. Just look at how Koreans change from hating China to Japan, and then back to China based on which was more recently oppressing them. Same with how the Arabs hated the Turks, then the British, and now the Israelis.