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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why is Africa so poor?

And what will they have to do in the next decades to build up 1st world standards?

Edit: thanks for all the replies so far, but I guess I'll be able to answer them next week, because I am not at home at the moment.
gpt
Long story short: decades of being exploited and beaten into submission by European colonial powers, then having their borders essentially drawn without their opinions even taken into account.

Compound this with the fact that many leaders in Africa are highly corrupt, building on the corruption of the system which has gone unchecked since independence. This means less money goes into public works.

Finally, years and years of warfare and/or civil unrest among many nations or even within some nations has weakened their foundations and made the job for the governments extremely hard.