But that can only to be construed as "blaming African people" or, more broadly as "blaming the victim", if a guilt-ridden confusion is made between context and agency.
I find funny the concept of victim. No one is a victim when one's evil affects the welfare of oneself. It's not because someone is hurt that someone is a victim. Sadly our own US justice system is following that instance. Self defense with a gun with or without a license, or slapping back an assaulting spouse, will lend many in jail.
Rather its most damaging legacy has been the psychological Siamese twins of endemic guilt on the European side and endemic psychological dependence on the African side, legacies which make truth telling hard and the adult taking of responsibility even harder. Imperialism fucked up the heads of so many people whom it touched - both colonialists and colonized (Frantz Fanon was absolutely and deeply right about that) and until that - ultimately depressing - legacy of its existence is finally killed, neither Africa nor African studies will be able to make real progress. It was that conclusion which led me - very sadly - to leave both behind.
Strange choice of words for the seeking of literacy about a subject. I am not against profanities, but in research subjects, I am.
Imperialism has nothing to do with it, but, rather, communist socialist lead Decolonisation and "deimperialism".
Euro guilt is due to a softening of the irresponsible Euros who still seek alibis for everything, perceptively done or not ... to note, the murder of the Jews still to this day in the criticism of Israel's actions against the Palestinians. As for the Africans, well, it is quite easy to become a leader there on a plank of blaming the very colonialism which educated enough that said leader so that he can spew guilt on his teachers he seeks to embody. Oh, and the said leaders are 99% of the time antisemitic too and supporting the Palestinian disaster.
No rule of law, Tribalism, Racism and Socialism."
Succinctly stated.
I would say that tribalism which is a form of socialism tops the list for me. Every cultural society that has not moved beyond it's tribal traditions based on the ultimate wisdom of it's ancestors experiences the inability to progress in the world.