Maadow pastor says “black” people never built anything before colonization

[Midas]

When India gained independence in the 1940s, it was an extremely poor country, around 80% of the population lived in poverty, struggling with basic necessities like food and energy. One of their biggest challenges was the energy crisis, which they tried to address by investing in nuclear power. However, even today, nuclear energy only accounts for about 3.3% of their energy mix, and much of the rural energy economy has long relied on traditional sources like cow dung.

I think the point about Sub-Saharan Africa’s GDP per capita was meant to suggest that there was a window of opportunity for growth, development, or investment but it may not have been fully capitalized on.

The problem is that windows was deceptive. Most african countires had no actual educated labor force to even began to build with.

You cant really compare that with india or china which had a large class of educated bureaucrats to work with. The first generation of educated modern African elites only emerged around ww2 in the 1940s this was about 50 years after it emerged in china and India.

To be clear here we are not talking about the masses but the elite classes.

 

[Zak12]

Guys chill with the Ethiopia bashing. I have no problem repping Ethiopian civilization to prove racists and others wrong who think blacks never built anything

 

[Fit~Prince]

Who cares? We are not black

 

[rageeni]

The guy is spreading racist narrative of the white supremacists, civilization was started from black man. East Africa was the origins of civilization look at ancient Egypt it's history is was started in upper Egypt which was black dominated, Tutankhamen was a east African so was his family, they lied about his DNA and said he has European genes. The story that black didn't build any civilization is a lie still being told do cover up real black ancient history

 

[Barkhadle1520]

Who care? We are not black

Nah were only black when they want us to be black

 

[Idilinaa]

The problem is that windows was deceptive. Most african countires had no actual educated labor force to even began to build with.

You cant really compare that with india or china which had a large class of educated bureaucrats to work with. The first generation of educated modern African elites only emerged around ww2 in the 1940s this was about 50 years after it emerged in china and India.

To be clear here we are not talking about the masses but the elite classes.

Do you mean they had a large Western-educated class? That’s true to some extent especially in India, where colonial policies produced a sizable number of English educated bureaucrats for the colonial administration. China too had pockets of reformist and modern educated elites.

But it’s important to note that, despite those elite classes, the majority of the population in both India and China remained illiterate and impoverished well into the mid-20th century.

So I think the original point about GDP per capita wasn’t necessarily about institutional capacity or education, but about a missed window of opportunity an economic position where, with the right leadership or support, African nations could have potentially accelerated development in a way similar to East Asia. That window didn’t reflect readiness, but potential

Somalia probably had the largest potential out of them all if it hadn't been externally derailed. There was a sizeable educated class developing both inside and outside the country. Somalia made scientific advances in agriculture, veterinary sciences, and its doctors were even performing open heart surgery. It’s a case where political interference, not lack of capability, set back what could have been a regional model for development.

 

[caanoshaah]

Whats with you madow boot licker's obssesion with Arabs so cringe wlhi

Always defending the people that hate you as well, absolutely hate you people from the bottom of my heart

there is no way you’re saying I’m obsessed with Arabs when ur the one handing over the entirety of Ethiopian history to Arabs (with questionable and outdated sources at that) You’re making no goddamn sense you gotta be a troll. Goodbye