I very much agree that many Western countries, not only US, are responsible for most African countries being poor via institutions like IMF and friends that fue

I very much agree that many Western countries, not only US, are responsible for most African countries being poor via institutions like IMF and friends that fueled local corruption. But I am not so sure about authoritarian regimes or tirany. South Korea and Taiwan 70 years ago were poorer that most African countries, have used child labor very extensively and had dictatorships when in Africa there were democracies at least on papers. Now these are the first world countries with working democracies. Even in China, when people became richer they started to care about environment and there were even protests again really bad pollution cases and there is much less child labor than 50 years ago. Yet Africa continues to be poor and use child labor extensively. So perhaps some tyrannies are not so bad long-term.