I am not trolling - and I understand we are approaching an emotional threshold here for some. Lots of factors ranging from hostile climates, tribal/ethnic wars

I am not trolling - and I understand we are approaching an emotional threshold here for some. Lots of factors ranging from hostile climates, tribal/ethnic wars, political issues, language barriers ... the list goes on. In addition to this, you have cultural traits that simply make it harder to build (or rebuild) a civilization. I think many people living on the continent would understand what I mean. Nobody in their right mind denies the horrors of colonialism, but one should not consider all historic events as exclusively negative. Not much of technology was invented over thousands of years (in sub-saharan Africa). Without colonialism (of some sort), it could be very possible that Africa would have remained in the stone age for the next thousand years.