Don't tell me it's due to racism. All of black africa is now controlled by blacks and has been for decades. Fact is blacks are mentally inferior and simply don't produce the scientists and businessmen that create wealth and a high standard of living. Blacks sing and dance and play sports. True in both america and africa.
I think their biggest problem is not intelligence but culture. If they could eliminate or reduce the epidemic level of corruption that infects almost all of black Africa a huge impediment to progress would be removed.
Paul Theroux thinks as he express in his book, see below, that their biggest problem is us or at least the good intentions or our foreign aid groups especially Christian. (To me he appears to have a hostility towards Christianity. ) He believes that if the foreigners would go home leave the African alone they would in time learn to do for themselves and develop their cultures, nations and economies . Paul is a liberal, but that sounds conservative to me.
Paul Theroux
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004 - Travel - 485 pages
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In Dark Star Safari the wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey, he endures danger, delay, and dismaying circumstances