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ELI5: Why is Africa so underdeveloped compared to other continents?
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One of the bigger reasons is that a bunch of European powers (France, UK, Spain, Italy, Germany, Portugal) went and colonizied it. They pretty mich sucked out a lot of resources, killed a bunch of people and made everybody else poorer and more desprate. After the Europeans left, the main peace keeping force at the time (their armies) was gone and people tried to size power. This pushed most of the continent into civil war or dictatorship that are just now statrting to recover.