Why is Africa Poor?

[MMMark]

Sun. 10/03/21 20:56 EDT
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@Southern

Are you contending that Botswana is not one of poorest nations on earth?

I’m not contending that. In fact, I have no idea. But when you state that it is, I wish you’d at least provide a link to a comparison chart or something. I mean, is it in the lowest five, ten, twenty? And according to most measures, or just one, or two, or what?

But again, I’m not sure “where they are now” is as important as “if they are headed somewhere,” “where they are headed,” and “at what rate.”

@Southern

But when you look at african populations outside of africa they are relatively poor. This is in western nations where both european, african, and asian populations are subject to the same economic and political systems. Yet the asian populations have out performed the europeans and the africans have lagged far behind the europeans.

Before I can argue this with you, we’d have to establish:

1. What, exactly, you are saying here;
2. Whether what you are saying is objectively demonstrable;
3. To what extent what you are saying is true.