>>4412259Indeed. In the early 1900s, Africa was a place of hope. Hard to believe it, but it's true. Every indicator of human progress, lifespans, literacy rates, GDP, all were going up. There was even the beginnings of a Bantu middle class, particularly in places like Ghana, South Africa, Rhodesia, and of course Liberia, where the government began the "Unification Policy" to uplift the native tribal peoples. In the 1950s and 1960s, the horror of decolonization began. Mass murder, rape, and starvation crippled nation after nation. The USSR and USA, the anti-colonial superpowers, began to flood Africa with light weapons in their struggle for power. Between the beginning of decolonization and the 1970s, Africa's GDP as a whole declined. This is an easy thing to say, but imagine what that means. The entire efforts of tens of millions of people to create wealth wiped out AND THEN SOME EVERY SINGLE YEAR.
At this point, only the Republic of South Africa, Rhodesia, and Portuguese Africa remained fairly stable, along with Liberia, the Ivory Coast and a few other enclaves which retained their white minorities. These combined represented together more than 75% of Africa's total wealth. In fact, the RSA alone represented more than half the wealth of Africa's 54 countries. After a determined effort by leftists abroad and the OAU, Rhodesia surrendered in 1980. Liberia's government was overthrown in a coup the same year, after which both countries slowly but surely sank into barbarism, mass murder and starvation. South Africa's government too was forced to surrender in 1990; the result has been the emigration of millions of the nation's most skilled people, including half of its medical professionals.
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