Why are many African nations poor today in spite of being rich in natural resources?

Answer 1

Answer 1

it by losing business and people getting homeless that how Africa go so poor because of their country was not that strong to hold anything back from what they had

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Answer 2

Most of Africa was colonized by western and European countries. They used Africa as a place to make money for themselves, but not for the indigenous peoples. For decades money flowed out of Africa. Little or nothing was done to improve or develop the infrastructure of the African countries. White people were the main money makers in the countries, and the native people were give mostly menial labor.

Later black leaders often learned how to rule from the whites and kept money that their countries could have used for themselves.

Answer 2

The main reason that Africa is so poor is that it had to start all over. To explain; 17 Century-19 Century Europe wanted African Slaves and, Africans where willing to trade. Although Africans and Arabs did trade slaves, they saw slaves as human beings and gave them rights. On the other hand, ignorant Europe saw all non-white peoples as "uncivilized" and "savages" that where not human. So when Europe traded slaves for resources the Africans never knew that the

Euros thought that way. Africa at the time was a continent of thousands of kingdoms who got along, African kingdoms had sets of parallel Alphabets (although people do not realize they did), advanced sewage systems that date back to the time of the European dark ages (while Europeans at the time did'NT bathe unless they where wealthy), ideal and some democratic governments, no doors on homes because no stealing, moral punishment, smelting iron. Basicly Africa was a well off advanced land. So when Europeans came to Africa and saw this, it proved their ideas where wrong and so they started to use tactics to try and erase the history of African success. For example, The kingdom of Benin in West Africa was a thriving kingdom until the British came and saw the success and tried to get into the city and take it over (like they try to do everywhere), At the time, there was a ceremony happening and no foriegners where allowed, so the British provoked the Africans and pilaged the city and raped the women and killed the people, stole ALL the gold and other valuable things and to top it off they burned the city to the ground. As the result of the city beinfg burned, the books where lost, the schools destroyed, EVERYTHING was gone, erased. This same thing happened all over thriving African Kingdoms even earlier Ancient times with the Egyptians and how Alexander invaded Egypt, stole all the books of knowledge and put them in HIS library. Anyway this happened all over Africa and economies plumeted and knowledges where lost. The GREATEST LOSS for Africa was is the Berlin conference of 1885 when Europe TOOK OVER AFRICA as a whole and Pushed Europeon ways and Languages on the Africans and all the native languages and knowledges where lost. That's the reason West Africa speaks French, and South Africa speaks English. Along with taking over Africa, They divided Africa into Countries and split up the counries as well. For Example Rwanda, Rwanda was a country made up by Belgium, the Belgians (with their Eurocentric ways) informed the Africans in that area that the taller, thin nosed, or light-skinned Africans where destined to be rulers over the the shorter, wider-nosed, and browner-skinnned Africans. The Belgians enforced them to the rulers "Tutsi" and the lower class "Hutu. The belgians continued to make the Africans hate each other until the Belgians left Rwanda and after the Belgians left, the "Hutu" president was killed by "Tutsi" rebels. then there was a Genocide of all "Tutsi" by "hutus". These effects crippled the now divided African countries. Many stains from Europe still haunt the Africans and it will take a long time for Africa to get back on its feet.

Answer 3

Beacause they have no food and water.

Wrong answer. Congo is poor country because Joseph Mobutu and Joseph Kabila are two stupid leaders.

Answer 4

Africa is a continent, on which are 54 countries, nine territories, and two de facto independent states. Africa is currently the poorest and most underdeveloped continent on Earth.

Answer 5

All wealthy countries use a Western Legal System.