Africa had a lot of mineral resources, an available population to work (age, strength), etc.
However, African countries did manage to develop as their pair did in Asia.
2007-12-11 22:12:19 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Economics
Development has may factors and africa lacks many of them - education, able administration to name a few. Talking of india for eg - compare it with countries like taiwan, malasia, singapore - tiny nations which beat all odds and rank in the top order.
Africa has be misused and continues to be so by the west. Taking tanzania for example ( i have been there) its a country with a amazing fertile soil and abundent natual resourses. Its complete economy is in the hands of foreigners - retail business in the clutches of indians (gujarati community) for over 200 years. Top order business in the hands of the west (mines etc).
The backbone of these nations are deliberatly broken by the rich nations on order to fill their own pockets.
A good education and healthy adminstration can help these nations to some extent
2007-12-11 22:23:03 · answer #1 · answered by spice 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Everyone wants to blame the imperialists, what a load of crap. When did India become independent?
Anyway, if I was you I would ignore the "imperialists ruined africa" BS.
There are a few real life things that happened. For starters, much of Africa is land locked, and many rivers are not navigatable, limiting cheap transportation opportunities. But that is old news too. In more modern times it has been instable governments that have severly hurt economic development in Africa. Can you name one african nation with a stable government since independence? South africa and Egypt, maybe, although they have had wars and upheval of thier own, and guess the two top economies in africa?
Colonialism and globalization are the cop out reasons people like to use, the real issue is the political instability, corruption, weak legal framework, etc. These are what prevent investment in economic development, as India and China have figured out and put to use.
2007-12-12 00:37:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
China and India have only increased it GDP per capita in the last 50 years, and a key element was reducing the birth rate, but Africa's birth remains high so the increase in population consumes increases in GDP.
China and India have a unified stable governments but the legacy of colonialism left Africa divided into 53 countries, most plagued by instability corruption and civil war.
2007-12-12 00:22:34 · answer #3 · answered by meg 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Africa did develop to many very high civilizations,but fell to the elements of Europe.
2007-12-11 22:20:05 · answer #4 · answered by endgame1915 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because subjugation and colonialism prolonged more than anywhere else and outsides looted more than they should have and contributed less than requried.
2007-12-11 22:16:41 · answer #5 · answered by Kehgohar R 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
i agree with Kehgohar!
and i think that the imperialism is the first cause
2007-12-11 22:24:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋