Why is Africa so backwards?

1. Not all of Africa is backwards. There are places which are more advanced than the US.
2. Africa is a very diverse continent. It is very rich in resources. They haven't developed their potential.
3. The continent is HUGE. It will take time to develop it.
4. Maybe if there was more colonization happening it would develop faster. I don't think they want that though.
5. Droughts have caused problems in parts of Africa.
6. People have exploited Africa. Greed has been rampant.
7. The slave trade happened not that long ago, so not only resources have been stolen but people.

You know the sadder part of this is, this is a rich resource nation, they should be well off, i would guess they just didnt progress as fast as the rest of the world, so people came in and plundered their resources and got slaves, this had to have set them back a long ways.

Well they have had a problem with civil war and ethnic cleaning. That doesn't help advancment.

I don't know. Maybe WE'RE backwards and THEY'RE forwards. One of us could be sideways.

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Lack of modern technology and lack of outside influences. Also much of Africa is largely controlled by religious laws.

Some coutries, South Africa in particular is very developed. It can compared with western countries.

Not all africa is backward, for example, north african countries and south africa are developed countries.