you wanted a developed African nation

their per-capita GDP is $18k

101st on the HDI

That puts them behind every white country

Behind a shitload of Arab countries, and a Persian country

Behind many Hispanic countries

Most developed African country was Rhodesia

F

Second was the old South Africa

"Formerly one of the poorest countries in the world—with a GDP per capita of about US$70 per year in the late 1960s—Botswana has since transformed itself into one of the world's fastest-growing economies. The economy is dominated by mining, cattle, and tourism. Botswana boasts a GDP (purchasing power parity) per capita of about $18,825 per year as of 2015, which is one of the highest in Africa.[11] Its high gross national income (by some estimates the fourth-largest in Africa) gives the country a relatively high standard of living and the highest Human Development Index of continental Sub-Saharan Africa"

Bahamas is more developed than Botswana. Bahamas is basically all black

They're getting their shit together

RELATIVELY high

That means it's a shithole compared to most others outside of Africa

"why are all these African countries the Europeans beat into the stone age in such disarray after centuries of war and colonization"

really activates the ol' almonds

They also have DIAMONDS

Dude why was Rhodesia on the same level as any European country, until Zimbabwe?

Does THAT activate the almonds?

because it was a colony being backed by international powers

Or maybe you've been mentally poisoned

same reason the Gold Coast was so successful

Africa had no literacy until colonization

that's absurd, many african cities were trading hubs through the middle ages

Well damn the white man for fucking that up

In fact were it not for African traders, the Europeans would never have gotten half the shit they did after the fall of the Western Roman Empire

South Korea was a medieval country far more primitive than the North, after decades of war and colonization by Japan

What are they now?

And we built it up into a first world nation using Ameribux

Germany was almost completely annihilated in WW2

because when we want a nation to succeed it will, like Germany, like South Korea, like Japan

China was invaded by Japan twice, the British twice, a handful of other countries also, fought a 21 year civil war and a Japanese invasion at the same time, saw two government systems destroyed, starved to death 10% of its population, all within a 100 year span. And look at them now. And that wasn't white man helping them on their feet.

You can't blame the white man for everything

I don't even know why you're here

I don't blame white people for anything, I'm saying there are a *large* number of reasons why things are the way they are

And none of it has to do with colonialism. Colonies all over the world have done just fine.

but to say that African nations are all dogshit because "lol black people" is ignorant of historical events

African nations are dog shit and it is not because of the white man.

Whatever other reasons there are, it can't be blamed on white people. Some of them have been free for over a century. Ethiopia has never been a colony to my knowledge.

Ethiopia was taken over by IIRC the Portuguese in one of the bloodiest African wars for independence of the 20th century

they suffered massively, women and children were burned by the europeans because they wanted them as a colony