why doesn't Africa have a single developed country or developed enough?

[Leonardo7373]

Europe has many
Asia has Japan Taiwan South Korea
North America has two
South America has Uruguay
Oceania has Australia or New Zealand

Africa has south Africa but that has its issues

 

[Febbie]

Many factors involved. Its complex and different for each country. One major one is stable governance.

Political instability scares investors overseas from investing into the country. A lot of skilled workers leave. This stagnates economic growth and corruption is endemic.

 

[Aurelian]

Europe has many
Asia has Japan Taiwan South Korea
North America has two
South America has Uruguay
Oceania has Australia or New Zealand

Africa has south Africa but that has its issues

Africa would had it if the west didn't interfere in African affairs or support dictators stealing africa's wealth. Gabon for instance small country with small population blessed with oil, but majority of the population don't see any of the oil revenue, instead it goes to private accounts in France and Gabon's leaders got support from France. Many other examples exist.

 

[Hurder]

10-years from now Syria will be even near more developed than the most developed country in Africa. If it doesn’t enter new conflict.

 

[Shimbiris]

Africa would had it if the west didn't interfere in African affairs or support dictators stealing africa's wealth. Gabon for instance small country with small population blessed with oil, but majority of the population don't see any of the oil revenue, instead it goes to private accounts in France and Gabon's leaders got support from France. Many other examples exist.

Africa is poor by design. Congo fuels the world economy in terms of so many resources yet only a small section of it's population lives well while its general population endure practically slave conditions.



The one time a Congolese leader actually cared and wanted better for his people and them getting a piece of the pie, the west had him assassinated.

 

[Midas]

Europe has many
Asia has Japan Taiwan South Korea
North America has two
South America has Uruguay
Oceania has Australia or New Zealand

Africa has south Africa but that has its issues

Its hard to hear but the reality is that even before colonization in the 1800s africa was behind the rest of the world. It had been for at least 2 millenia. 90% of africa with a few exceptions had
1) no writing system
2) no coinage
3) no animal transportation so everything was done by hand
4) no infrastructure like wells or dams

There was basically almost no real precolonial state capacity in most of africa. That has huge ramification since ultimately the europens wether its in asia or africa could only build and rely on what was already there. In asia you already had large states with bureaucy, wiriting, and infrastructure in place . So the Europeans colonization of asia meant these countries could acquire European knowledge and technology on a large scale . So that buy the time colonization ended asian countries had a decent pool of well educated elites and they had built up a decent amount of infrastructure.

By 1950 indonesia alone had 60 thousand km of roads all of sub saharan africa had 42,000 km by 1960

 

[SixthAbdi]

Consider the following

 

[Lightshow]

Europe has many
Asia has Japan Taiwan South Korea
North America has two
South America has Uruguay
Oceania has Australia or New Zealand

Africa has south Africa but that has its issues

My biggest problem with this is how can you list Asian counties and leave China out?

 

[Lightshow]

Africa is poor by design. Congo fuels the world economy in terms of so many resources yet only a small section of it's population lives well while its general population endure practically slave conditions.



The one time a Congolese leader actually cared and wanted better for his people and them getting a piece of the pie, the west had him assassinated.

Not to mention that most African countries are actually underpopulated despite the fear mongering by racists.

 

[Idilinaa]

Someone on this forum shared this explanation i think this tells the other end of why outside of geography/history.

@Shimbiris @Aurelian

 

[Killamenace78]

Europe has many
Asia has Japan Taiwan South Korea
North America has two
South America has Uruguay
Oceania has Australia or New Zealand

Africa has south Africa but that has its issues

Most of North Africa is developed they have access to water,electricity and food

 

[Idilinaa]

Africa is poor by design. Congo fuels the world economy in terms of so many resources yet only a small section of it's population lives well while its general population endure practically slave conditions.



The one time a Congolese leader actually cared and wanted better for his people and them getting a piece of the pie, the west had him assassinated.

You see there in that video , it shows many of the things that i often point out class separation, unregulated hyper capitalism which makes wealth distribution uneven, lack of investments in affordable housing which creates a large poor population, rich minority that hoards all the wealth and slums.

 

[Qeelbax]

Francafrique

 

[Midas]

I get the appeal of this narrative that there is some neoliberal economic order purposely trying to keep africa down and there are elemnst of this narrative that are very true. But it has huge flaws as well. For instance why did the African countries in the 80s and 90s need imf bailouts in the first place? Its becuase the import substitution model didn't work for them.

The current economic consensus at the time (60-80s) was that it was the best way to develop. But in reality it only works in some cases. The imf structural adjustments were the new economic consensus (80-90s) and they also as we realized later failed.

Thr simple reality is that while there are a lot of complex factors at play and they vary by country. At the end of the day the difference between African countries vs Asian countries. Was that 1)you had the early suceas of Japan who then later when it colonized korea and northern china invested heavily in them then korea and Japan later invested in china and they all later invested in southeast easia. So it went Japan > China and korea > Malaysia, indoensia,Vietnam ,thailand

2) no real instutions so that meant these African countries had a very small base to start from . And couldn't maintain political stability. If you read about all the shit asia went through in the last 60 years it's just as bad as africa, but they were able to weather the storm and maintain stability.