[LauraleeBraswell]

""...and what of the problems besetting the African continent. The poverty, starvation, lack of technological progress. Would you submit that this is a result of evolutionary selection?""

No, it isn't a result of evolutionary selection because we didn't evolve to starve to death. We evolved to survive. And we need food to survive.
Warlords and Environmentalists are starving African people to death. So? What's you're point?

[He Rides A White Horse]

"In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment."
-Charles Darwin

[He Rides A White Horse]

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
-Charles Darwin