How is it that they live on top of literal diamonds, gold, and petroleum but can’t advance as a species...

This plus tons of political instability, due to extremly weak institutions, corruption, revolutionary turmoils, one-party-states and dictators largely caring only about their own material good.

>There society is different, but is fairly culturally rich.
I wouldn't call widespread ritual murder and human sacrifice "culturally rich"

Haven't learned how to run a country

dont forget albino mutilation

Because the money from those exports doesn't actually get given back as tariffs to the people

It has more to do with wealth stratification. Africans do not care at all about other africans, there is zero sense of the collective, no concept of brotherhood or community. It's very individualistic. The result is that a few african families are wildly rich at the expense of 99.9% of other africans.

Name a perfect society that never had any for of brutality or aspects that were otherwise shameful or embarrassing?

Name a society in 2018 that does those things that isn't in Africa without googling it

doin't forget eating pygmies

the richest man to ever live was a west African king educate yourself

Mexico. Places in the mideast. While not ritual murder the US practices mass incarceration which is very closely related to slavery/enslavement.

>US practices mass incarceration which is very closely related to slavery/enslavement.
LOL

It's not funny. It's true, and it sucks to constantly wonder if you are somehow breaking the law, and constantly being shaken down, but in a way that masquerades as legitimate, because it comes with paperwork and shit.

All that shit is the reason WHY they're fucked up. Think about it.

If you have a ton of natural resources, you don't need educated workers to mine them. Plenty of money without education = easy control over the people.

Who needs elections when you can have dictatorships? It's not like the people are educated enough to do jack shit about it - they're all fuckin' poor.

Whereas, if you're in, say, the US, with nowhere near as many natural resources as Africa, educated labor is required.

Educated, semi-wealthy people are hard to take control over - hence, we have a democratic system.

It's just the keys to power.

>as a species?

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hahahah black delusions, africa is a backwards shithole and the US police has every right to shoot black thugs (Trayvon) that resist arest and pull firerarms on cops knowing they would get shot, not to mention crack dealing and you dare question incarceration rates? Fix ur race first and make them stop being criminals and leech off of welfare and stop protesting cops doing their job, oh yeah and stop beating up white farmers in SA because of your inferiority complexes.

>Fix ur race

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>be american
>have a child
>mother leaves you and puts you on child support
>Lose job, because shit happens
>can no longer pay child support
>go to jail

It's that simple, you could also replace child support with alimony.

Then there is taxes, of it all just gets so confusing, and don't let them catch you broke.

What does SA have to do with america?

In America you're essentially at the mercy of your employer(another human) that leaves the door wide open for abuse and usury.

Even white people in the US get incarcerated at a much higher rate than whites in other countries. There is a systematic issue.

No, you stop. I don't want to have to look up Tomoko pron on r34 right now, you fucker.

>why can't they conform to western way of living

maybe they don't really want to

All of that is only valuable once you've established a civilization and elites are trading in prestige goods. All the gold in the world doesn't mean shit to some nomadic tribe living on the edge of subsistence.

One of the easiest countries to start a business in

The amount of red tape is ridiculous. It's just very complicated if not expensive. Most places outside the US so long as you have enough money to pay the local warlord or governor, you're good.

Come try it in brazil then
The ammount of accountants any business must have is crazy

Lol

Slavery didn't just come into existence during the last 300 years, retard. These resources have been lying in the same place for thousands of years but none of the indigenous peoples were capable of tapping into it in all that time.

The real answer? Low IQ, simple as that.

Crude oil, uranium, and even diamonds would have been essentially useless, or at least not worth the effort until modern technology. The locals were able to mine gold and iron ore, which were useful at the time.

>Whereas, if you're in, say, the US, with now

Fuck no the usa us RICH with resources. Also not all of Africa is teeming with with natural wealth.

Dine only by a small subset of people in a quarter bunghole.

>Africans do not care at all about other africans, there is zero sense of the collective, no concept of brotherhood or community. It's very individualistic.

Nigger what? Africans are not individualistic to the degree the west is. Fucks sake one minute I hear they are community/family focused and the next they are individualistic?

They're [insert bad thing that lets /pol/ write off an entire continent and race as having no history, culture, or rights here].

Quick rundown on why they those resources weren't really utilized until colonization:
>location
Most of those oil deposits are in deserts or off the coast. Most of those diamonds are in inhospitable climates like the Congo forests or the Namib desert.
>uselessness
Some of these resources were fundamentally useless to pre-industrial societies (if I need to explain why uranium is in that category, you're beyond hope).
>the resources that were used
Most of the areas that had metal mines? They were fairly prosperous. The Egyptians mined Sudanese gold for centuries, Mansa Musa was fabulously wealthy because of the gold mines near Mali, and the Swahili coast (modern Tanzania and Mozambique) had a series of medieval trading hubs.

So what does contribute to large-scale societal development and prosperity before the modern era? Good climate conducive to farming, minable resources close to the surface, and the ability to trade for whatever they can't row, mine, or make.

There's a word for it, but I forget. Basiply if your country has an abundance of resources and you are not already developed, it is in other, developed countries interest to keep you from establishing a solid government, etc. because then they would have to pay a fair price for your resources instead of just taking them. There are other problems, without a doubt, but that's a major contributer

because this

The tse tse fly is merely a notable example of the many ailments that afflict life and agriculture in the tropics.

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I leave Veeky Forums for 6 months and you tards are still posting the same godforsaken map. I think it's at the point where you should just add this map and to the sticky so you won't have to bother with it anymore.

>this nigga don't know the private prison industry uses slave labor

>diamonds, gold, and petroleum
None of which are helpful to early civilization.