There are many stories of Africans working hard to make things better — helping others, building things, lifting people out of poverty — and then they get senselessly murdered for no reason at all.
Such a tragedy is usually followed by the expression: “Africa wins again.”
Africa always wins, and nothing ever really gets better.
I was helping my kid out with a report, and Sierra-Leone kept coming out on the bottom for everything (length of life, GDP, etc.) So I wanted to know why.
It was their Civil War. So much fighting that most kids couldn’t attend school for something like 10 years. Over a thousand schools were destroyed. The new president at the time said that even though there was now peace, trying to find anybody that was educated enough to help lead was difficult.
And the corruption at the local level. The federal government put taxes on natural resources to help fund the nation (say 30%), but the local governors would accept a 10% bribe instead from the miners.
One of Nixon’s regrets from Watergate and him leaving, he had wanted to create relationships and political education with the nations in Africa to help them develop effective governments.
you are wrong
1. Rwanda since after the genocide has been remade and is booming economically and socially
2. Ethiopia since it junked socialism has been booming
3. Botswana has been quietly growing since the 1950s
4. Senegal too has missed the coups etc. and has been growing socially and economically
5. Kenya and Tanzania are doing well economically - politically they are still troublesome, but there is improvement happening over decades.