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The poor performance of African economies and economies where people of color other than white led people to wonder if poverty is a black or a color thing.

This issue of poverty is a black thing has gained credibility in many circles. This question is also asked to Africa because it is the poorest continent on earth. It is a continent where for 30 years there has been no concrete economic development compared to the rest of the world. It lags behind all other continents in terms of economic and social development. Most, if not all countries in Africa have economic problems of unemployment ie, high inflation, higher deficits, poor economic and social infrastructure including roads, ports, education, airports , telecommunications, health systems and sanitation, and rail. Africa is a continent where people die for lack of food, water, and against common preventable diseases. It is a continent full of misery, despair and hopelessness. It is a continent where very few children under five survive the threat of the six killer diseases. It is a continent where people lack access to basic necessities of life. It is a continent where people walk several miles of water and children have no access to education and medical services. It is a continent where rural life is nothing but a sentence to abject poverty. It is a place where people live in mud / thatched houses with bamboo leaves and raffia / as roofing sheets. It is a continent full of wars and armed conflicts. It is a continent of dictators and plutocrats, a continent where corruption is rewarded and achievement is avoided, a continent where the entry into public life / service is considered a means of acquiring wealth and a means of obtaining top positions. It is a continent where life expectancy is low and corruption high.

Is there a particular color or race thing? I must say that I do not agree or subscribe to the idea that poverty has a color in it and deduce that the underdevelopment and poverty that is widespread in Africa is deeply rooted in centuries of slavery and colonialism, coups, armed conflict, the brain drain, the endemic corruption and mismanagement, dictatorship, kleptocracy, foreign intervention and the struggle for control of natural resources.

Slavery and colonialism

Centuries of slavery and colonialism in the continent deprived of its human capacity and economic development. Men and women were swept in a position to work the plantations of the Americas (in every 30 - 40 million people) and they have helped make America and Europe than they are today . Millions of young Africans have been forced to abandon the continent of their origin and were transported several thousand miles away to a country where they had no historical connection. They traveled in very poor, without food, water and air. When they reached the so-called new worlds, they were made to work from morning sun to set the time they only had themselves was Sunday where they had everything they needed their own planting their cultures, repair their homes. It was a very unpleasant experience of having to work for us without pay. Some have even worked until they dropped dead. The slave trade has deprived the continent of its energetic men and women a vital resource in the development process and sank the continent in an intellectual nature.

Looting resources

Around the same time that slavery was vigorously pursued, the natural resources including timber, gold, diamonds, tin ore, ivory and many were looted in large quantities by European namely Belgium, Great Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain and Italy. After s.