system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5:Why is Africa still so poor and underdeveloped after decades of western world help?

We have been sending aid in numerous different ways for decades (starting from the 80's?) **billions** of dollars, many teachers, etc.
I'm starting to think that it should show up in someway after all this time. 

Just a thought because i see the same fundraiser for africa every single year raising millions of dollars (euros).
gpt
Many African countries have and continue to have astonishingly high growth rates, but it's important to remember just how poor a lot of these countries were at independence.

the Democratic Republic of Congo had a population of about 15 million at independence. Among those 15 million, 16 were college graduates.