Before white people got there, there was not a multi-story structure in all of sub-Saharan Africa.
Left to their own, they also never excavated minerals, built bridges and they had not domesticated animals.
But just wait..!
They are going to go ahead and internalize all this Hocus Pocus in the movie about gleaming cities, lasers and flying cars, etc.
just wait.
Actually when Portuguese explorers arrived in sub-Saharan Africa, there were numerous cities all built of wood; there was fresh water piped into homes as well as a sewer system - the pipes were made out of wood. The Portuguese Empire was the crown of European Civilization at the time. The explorers sent word back to the Crown asking permission to remain as the living conditions were so much better in those cities (running water in home and sewers were unknown in all of Europe then).
However, with the introduction of the trade of firearms to local mussulman slavers the cities were raided and destroyed. The jungle destroyed what remained.
People need to remember that prior to the mussulman conquest in the 7th and 8th centuries northern and costal African civilizations were well developed and ahead of anything in Europe at the time. After the conquest, nothing remained and people were reduced to savagery and squalor, the condition they remained in when the slave trade expanded to the Americas.
Citations: “Ancient African Kingdoms” - Margaret Shinnie; “A Short History of Africa” - Roland Oliver & JD Fage; “East Africa: A Search For Unity” - AJ Hughes
The Masaai domesticated cattle.
“Left to their own, they also never excavated minerals, built bridges and they had not domesticated animals.”
I have wondered for a long time why certain cultures are more inventive than others. I’m not ready to believe that one race is more intelligent than another. So I just don’t know.