This had me thinking

The Somali Caesar

King of Sarcasm• Location: Rent free in your head
VIP
Africa as a whole has a population of 1.3 billion and has a gdp of $2.6 trillion. With unlimited natural resources Oil,Gas,Gold,Diamond,Silver etc.

While a country like Japan with a population of 123 million and has a GDP of $5 trillion. It has no significant natural resources.
 
because some country are stuck hundreds of years back with their leaders thinking of only their gain of power and money. When Africa has countries that are democracies for real instead of only in name
 

Radical

Certified CNC expert.
Like @Milano Ahmed said, colonialism really messed up Africa, a large part being that these nations now have borders that someone else drew.

You often hear that colonizing powers drew borders with no care for what people happened to live within them, but that's not true.

Frequently, borders were drawn with the intention of including rival tribes or demographic groups.

Playing them off against each other, for example, by designating the smaller group as the ruling class and the larger one as the laborers, was a great way to keep the nation in line. It guaranteed that the ruling class would be reliant on the colonial power to prevent uprisings, and so they would do all they could to please the colonial power, often worsening relations between the two native groups in the process.

And of course another significant reason being power itself, Power attracts corrupt people, and once those corrupt people have that power, they are not interested in giving it up. They carefully surround themselves with people who help them maintain that power, and be sure that the institutions that protect their power (i.e. the army) is compensated well enough to make it worth their while to keep those power structures in tact. No country is actually immune to this. But you don't see the more extreme cases in the likes of Japan compared to Congo because they generally have a more educated populace that aren't easily swayed.
 
Africa as a whole has a population of 1.3 billion and has a gdp of $2.6 trillion. With unlimited natural resources Oil,Gas,Gold,Diamond,Silver etc.

While a country like Japan with a population of 123 million and has a GDP of $5 trillion. It has no significant natural resources.
Because european countries keep colonizing, looting and stealing african resources for their own benefit while abusing africans in the process.
 
Top