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ELI5: Why after having rich natural resources most of Africa is poorly developed?
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There are a handful of reasons.

First and foremost, colonialism. Europeans colonized much of Africa and created "artificial nations" that cut apart groups that worked well together and grouped fighting nations into the same area (such as in Rwanda).

Secondly, lack of necessity. "Necessity is the mother of innovation", one major necessity of most other "civilized" nations is winter. Winter caused farmers to learn how to be most effective so as to feed themselves on the surplus in the winter, it taught inventors how to create things that would help someone travel and survive in the cold, it taught leaders how to plan for the future. In places without winter, such as most of Africa, every day could be lived the same as the one before and the one after leading to a lack of major innovation.