Southern-Trip-1102 t1_iucnbyq wrote on October 30, 2022 at 9:15 AM

Reply to comment by _Iro_ in Megalopolis: how coastal west Africa will shape the coming century. by filosoful

How does it account for the colonization and exploitation of Africa? It seems like a confounding variables if you want to propose resources as the reason for their poor development.

_Iro_ t1_iue4bz3 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 5:16 PM

I’m not “proposing” anything as a single explanation for Africa’s underdevelopment because it’s obviously not that simple. I’m just saying that resources exacerbate Africa’s existing problems instead of solving them. That’s how the resource curse works, it only entrenches intrastate conflict and corruption but it doesn’t create it out of nowhere.