Colonization absolutely devastated Africa

Great post!

That’s real enlightening, but you ain’t fooling nobody with your faux outrage. Colonizer.

You're comparing apples to oranges. China, the Balkans, Korea-- they were colonized, but for shorter times than most African nations. Many African countries were controlled as early as the 1400s, and most remained colonies in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, and some into the 1990s.

Korea was a colony under Japan for 35 years.

British control of China was mainly limited to Hong Kong. The colonialism there was very different, and based in large part on exports and trade, and with a focus on building a strong nation to support the British Empire.

The Balkans were contested and controlled between the two World Wars, and later fell under Soviet control, but like China and Korea, had centuries to develop before they lost independence. It's not really correct to call them colonized, but you can definitely see the effects when you compare the safety, wealth, and success of Western Europe to Eastern Europe.

Africans were sold into slavery from the 1400s until the 1800s. That's a long period of time, and a far more devastating thing than any country you listed, or any others, endured.

The colonizers primarily used Africa as a resource, pulling wealth and natural resources out without any compensation. There was no attempt to build anything, like in India for example, or to do anything other than pillage the land and its people. When Portugal finally left Mozambique (in 1975, by the way) they literally took everything they could, even the pipes and wires in the buildings. The colonizers were brutal and inhuman in Africa in ways they were not anywhere else.

Africa itself is a factor, too. Much of Africa lacks access to ocean shipping, and even nations linked to the ocean by rivers are limited by those rivers being unnavigable. The climate is not favorable.

This is just a quick rundown of some of the more obvious factors. Do some honest research and be open to changing your point of view and you may learn a lot.

Exactly. Also, the vast majority of Africa wasn't colonised until the 19th century, yet their stage of development was extremely primitive.

Cont'd... I'd just like to add that for some parts of Africa, there is still war with Western powers, through drone strikes or outright conflicts such as in Somalia... Not to mention Libya which was bombed into oblivion by Nato (for complex reasons)... So, Africa doesn't exist in a vacume from the world... Nor is it desirable for Africa or for the rest of the world for them to do so... The way different parts of Africa relate to one another and the rest of the world is complex...

For example, China is doing massive development projects in Africa in exchange for access to miniral rights and such... This is a complex situation, as there is no free lunch... How does bringing in Chinese labour and subcontractors affect the development of the local economy? On what terms are these deals done and by whome (i.e. by what right?)? Who benefits locally? is this neo-colonialism or just trade?

Wakanda is not real... It is fantasy, but even that cartoon had the insight to show that the issues are more complex than isolation vs. engaggment, or being eternally tied to a past, even though it cannot help but be influenced by it...

Edit: Also what is not seen in this movie, nor should it really be as it's just a comicbook movie but people and the filmmakers have over inflated Black Panther's meaning, is that there are millions of people living perfectly normal lives in Africa, in cities, towns and villages... They work, play, love and live normal lives and have personal dramas and stories just as any people anywhere else in the world... Now that is a much more radical concept than a spandex wearing superhero king 😂

It's bizarre that mention only the British colonization of Egypt. The Roman Empire civilized much of the Old World, Marxists never complained!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Egypt

Egypt quickly became the Empire's breadbasket supplying the greater portion of the Empire's grain in addition to flax, papyrus, glass, and many other finished goods. The city of Alexandria became a key trading outpost for the Roman Empire (by some accounts, the most important for a time). Shipping from Egypt regularly reached India and Ethiopia among other international destinations.[9] It was also a leading (perhaps the leading) scientific and technological center of the Empire. Scholars such as Ptolemy, Hypatia, and Heron broke new ground in astronomy, mathematics, and other disciplines. Culturally, the city of Alexandria at times rivaled Rome in its importance.[10]

Classical antiquity
Macedonian and Ptolemaic Egypt 332–30 BC
Roman and Byzantine Egypt 30 BC–641 AD
Sasanian Egypt 619–629
Middle Ages
Islamic Egypt 641–969
Fatimid Egypt 969–1171
Ayyubid Egypt 1171–1250
Mamluk Egypt 1250–1517
Early modern
Ottoman Egypt 1517–1867
French occupation 1798–1801
Egypt under Muhammad Ali 1805–1882
Khedivate of Egypt 1867–1914
Modern Egypt
British occupation 1882–1922
Sultanate of Egypt 1914–1922
Kingdom of Egypt 1922–1953

Well it may have been successful for the colonizers but believe it or not African natives are also human

That's a pretty nonsensical stretch. A group of people who have lived in isolation on a remote island are in no way indicative of what an entire continent of people would be like today if left to their own devices. The climate and geography of Africa certainly preclude the sort of technological advancements that are possible in much of the rest of the world, but to assume the entire continent would be locked in the stone age smacks of either ignorance or racism.

Incredible! The recognized IQ range of mild mental retardation is an IQ ranking of 55-70. 30 of the countries on that list have average IQs within the range of mild retardation!!!