[Harmless Teddy Bear]

No nation in Africa, populated and governed by actual Africans, has produced anything much more advanced than a mud hut since the Egyptians, and of course, the Egyptians were not "sub-Saharan" Africans.

Really?

What are Ethiopians if not "sub-Saharan" Africans?

The Churches of Lalibela

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I assume you mean their culture and architecture from around 1100 or 1200? Fair enough, though I still don’t know of much in the way of technological breakthroughs or process on the continent in the past 700 years or so. Has there been any? Maybe, but I haven’t heard of anything (not the same as saying there absolutely hasn’t been any).

My point is not that the people are somehow inferior, but that for the most part, their cultures do not produce much in the way of prosperity, security, or technological advancement for their people.