Was Africa Better Off Colonized?

Was Africa better off being colonized and under Europe control? When we look at Africa now it's a mess, so much corruption.

Sad!

No.

Hard to say. It'd probably be better off if communism never tried to inseminate it's ideology into africa and depending on what the alternative to colonization is, it might be better off in colonization.

If colonization never happens to africa, would they become westernized like japan, cut up into spheres of influence like china, or would there be places in africa that are isolated and uncontacted? If europe didn't colonize africa, someone would, dar-al-islam already did partially, the cominterm tried to, china is right now.
Pick your poison.

Yes.

Op meant if it stayed colonized though.

Also hard to say. If it stayed colonized, it'd still be the battleground of communist and capitalist factions. Honestly, Africa is a shit hole because africans have shitty culture. It would require supllanting their entire culture to make it like most developed countries, but it's not like developed countries are much better.

>because Africans have a shitty culture
Care to elaborate?

Yes. However it would be far far better off if colonization and the slave trade never happened as West Africa especially had stable kingdoms before they were turned to shit via infighting over who can sell the most slaves.

>Africa has one culture
This is why no one takes Veeky Forums seriously

Of course they don't have one culture. But virtually all their cultures are shitty.

I like how the Black, Red n Gold for Germany admits that Versailles just ruled the German colonies to be administered by the League of nations thus they are still German.

Based on your arbitrary metric and memes?
Yeah I bet you think they have no concept of time in their languages at all.

Better off in what way? What make you think the Europeans would suddenly be benevolent and not instadump on any local power if they had the chance?

Fucking yes

White mans burden is a real thing, we needed to drag the natives away from witch doctors and tribal warfare

To bad (((they))) stopped it

Is there correlation and in which direction causation between the degree of easable people movent a(nd a lack of progress stemming from inferiority brought about by this resultant higher degree of inbreeding and thus inferior gene pool selection, I wonder?
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It hasn't been de-colonized. It's under neo-colonization. There's a constant flux of money going out of Africa, taking into account the "international aid".

user all that money is form tax dodging by companies not aid.

Fair enough.

Yes, or under minority rule if not, like based rhodesia and south africa.

this desu

wikileaks has some doc's about it

Like the Tax dodging and loophole abuse is like pretty rampant. This is just typical MNC shit and should b basic knowledge. Like lol you can deliberately fail your mine quotas/output go to the government and say "spare us the taxes we failed to meet outr output" the government gives you a write off of slashes taxes because it doesn't want to lose you, then you take the say copper you mined out and sell it and below market prices to companies back home while you get extremely small taxes. This shit happens allover the world alongside cooperate with oppressive government and in general corruption.

>westernised like japan

Tax's essentially paying for dlsecurity anyway so they do pay on another way, same affect. Margins more exploitable but definetly not so long term, higher risk, volatility,l. Nationalise genocide of a continent, at least the sub part of it. See Leopold's through its logical conclusion. Weather machine ironcurtain a trench between the nth and sth and go to town.