...Canada, US of A , Australia,
Its a function of choice, every step. Once you are there what do you want to do? All of these colonies chose to follow law and prosper. But for Africans? Too many tribes and illiteracy. Still plagued with it today. Thats one of the reasons they exceed at failure. Sure they have structured societies, all tribal monarchies. Political/religous philosophy is still 1000 years backwards. When was the last time the whiteman had tribes in England? Germany? France?
The African AND Middle Eastern (Arab) colonies which gained independnce during the ‘50’s and ‘60’s were taken over by socialist or fascist (Baathist) despots who were re-distributionist and “revanchist” toward the colonial powers.
The authoritarian nature of Islam and tribal societies probably had a lot to do with that.
The newly independent Asian nations have followed a different path which is more free-market oriented and they have prospered tremendously by comparison.