There has already been enough credible "history" posted in this thread by some, like Franco and IM2.
Speaking for I'm talking about recently and present times, that I personally witnessed.
Misinformed individuals who have obviously never been to Africa, and are deeming it to currently be an all encompassing "shithole", is what I am addressing.
I've been to Africa over several decades. I stayed in Kinshasa Zaire back in p1974 to attend the Ali/ Foreman heavyweight title fight. I had a very nice room with great service near N'djili Airport.
Back then, I didn't see a "shithole" city. What I saw was a clean, lively, and fun place, teeming with highly educated, comfortable Africans, many of whom were professionals.
They didn't live in "mudhuts" and were not "eating bugs", as some of your poorly educated peers have stated that the entire continent is
I also stayed in Kigali, Rwanda, just in the last 10 years and did not see people "eating bugs" and living in "mudshacks" either.
It is documented history that the continent has been raped, and its indigenous people marginalized by unwelcomed interference, and exploitation.
Other than that, I'm enjoying this thread. As usual, it shines a telling light on the ignorance of some of those who post here.
Yes, Africa has been raped. However, the leaders, the BLACK leaders, have been willing participants in that rape. What franco and im post is sometimes factual, most times not.
Unlike you who visited briefly, I have actually lived in Africa for extended periods of time.
Interesting that you mention Kinshasa, I was there for the fight too. Had you bothered to travel just a little way out of the city center...like three kilometers. You would have seen an entirely different city.
Unlike yourself who flew in, I drove in, and the world beyond the happy center of town is far different.
And, sadly, it has become far worse.