[Red Badger]

Africa has ALWAYS been in poverty, all the way back to ancient times. When was it not?..................

[grania]

It isn't so much that Africa was always in poverty. It's that it was tribal and the people are not suited to western civilization, laws, and religion. Still aren't.....as soon as the colonial governments are gone for a generation or so, areas left to govern themselves devolve.

Exception....Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco...the northern tier were doing pretty well with heavy handed governments, till regime change messed that up.