Why is africa still poor after all these years?

They are still poor becouse of overpopulation...and not controlling birth rate, when you have area that can feed 100people but there is more, and you just help suddenly there is more of them and again they need help..it will just repeat

According to the liberals - they are preserving their culture !! Only white people care about money !! And IQ Tests are racist !!

I wonder if places that constantly take in immigrants from less well-off countries are partially to blame for the prolonging of their poverty and inability to progress and that in doing so we are not only stopping their nations from progressing but bringing issues in our own due to it.

This is a genuine question that if anyone can shed light on I'd like to hear.

Africa as a continent remains poor because they do not band together and create a single country. And because as each country became emancipated, instead of trading for better infrastructure and enriching their entire country, each leader, chosen or self made chose to instead trade their countries resources for themselves and a chosen few. A practice which unfortunately still persists as each new leader takes power.
A very unfortunate circumstance which is not helped by the fact that other countries know this and exploit it.

That's just my opinion.

They still believe that everything belongs to the chief, and the chief takes it!

Africans are ego driven cannibals. They wash dishes with sand which clogs their sewers. So they piss and shit in the streets, diseases are rampant, there is not even a dependable banking system. Illiteracy is high. They only know how to fuck each other and shoot each other.

Africa must be quarantined so that they can return to being primitive savages.

1) "Africa" is not a "nation". Africa is a continental landmass, that is home to many 'nations'.
In fact, there is more genetically diverse populations in Africa alone, than there is in the whole rest of the world!

2) Most of these problems stem from overpopulation, coupled with, and partially caused by being situated where the world's geomagnetic field is weakest (although this geomagnetic 'hole' is currently gradually migrating westward, across the Atlantic ocean, towards South America.

Lack of investment from other countries.

What India, Brazil, China and a lot of other "developing" countries have had is investment from trans-national corporations based in the West. These companies have basically industrialised these poorer countries. As a result, they have more diversity in industry now (not just farming for resources, they actually MAKE things that can be traded).

This has led to an increase in wealth, which has been used properly in a lot of places (East Asia especially here) to diversify further, improve education facilities, and promote the growth of further industry ("service economies" and information/scientific, which is more like what dominates in The West).

There's 4 categories of industry; Primary (basic, resource gathering), Secondary (making shit, factory work), Tertiary (a "service" economy, consumerism, transport, business, etc) and Quaternary (Information technology, education, scientific). Generally, the more developed a country is, the less primary industry it has and the more Tertiary and Quaternary dominates.

Africa lags because it hasn't had that investment and diversifying of industry, transnationals aren't opening up factories and other industries there... it's stuck in a rut of being the continent that's only seen as useful for mining shit, farming and getting natural resources. When that's all a region has to offer, they're not going to make money very fast... unless it's like oil or something, which is how The Middle East got rich.

There are endemic social problems as well; corruption, lack of high education, stupidly high birth rates, unmitigated spread of HIV and other diseases. They do contribute.

I don't accept "colonialism!" as an excuse. It's been, what 70 years since The British and French left? That's 3 generations ago. I can't stand countries blaming social regressivism on some policy "The British!" might or might not have implemented during their stay. As someone of Maltese descent, I'm not going to sit and blame The European Knights for Catholicising Malta, and that's why abortion (in ANY circumstance) is still illegal in 2017. Fuck that shit, no, today Maltese people are accountable for that, and I'm going to point it out and say what a fucking disgrace it is because I want better for women of my ethnicity.

Fraud and corruption are natural to Nigerians. I have also worked in hospitals and they move so slowly - God help you if you were having a cardiac arrest because they just can't seem to speak or move quickly. Asians on the other hand were quick and hard working. Turkish are cruel and use charm to con foreigners. Some bright spark will say not all !!!! are the same. Yes, I know, just saying what I have seen from personal experience. Watched a program about famine and have never seen so many children - thought you had to be well nourished to conceive? These people still have the energy to bonk.

It's almost like races aren't the same or something...

I'M NOT A NAZI KKK WHITE SUPREMIST MY BEST FRIEND IS GAY!

Corruption from within and exploitation from outside.
Oh, and Africa isn't a nation, it's a continent. Are you American by any chance?

Remember, people: whatever you do, do NOT blame it on the Africans themselves!!!!!

The main problem is not corruption, but different social and historical circumstances. China has a lot of corruption, but it will be the strongest world power soon, and perhaps some day the most influential. Regarding the countries you mentioned, India was made of relatively powerful kingdoms and empires before being conquered by the Brittish, and Brazil was even a micro-imperialist local power during the first decades of independence. Brazillian colonial cuture was even marked by thriving literary and artistical traditions, despite Portuguese pressure and local control by the rural aristocracy, while India's traditions are much older and even richer. Both countries are relatively fortunate when compared to most of Africa, which was composed mainly by tribal societies and small kingdoms exploited by centuries of chattel slavery and exploitation-based "colonization". Likewise, while national identity is important both in Brazil and in India (although India is formed by many different peoples), African nationalities are more complex, as they are a direct product of artificial division by imperialist powers, with little thought to the thousands of different peoples living there. Meanwhile, since they are in general the weakest, they are also in general the most likely to succumb to CURRENT imperialism as well, as well as internal warlords and crises, and thus the unending wars and dictatorships you mention. It's also important to mention, however, that North Africa is an exception, and it is, understandably, much closer to Latin America in terms of development than most of Africa. South Africa is also much richer than most of Africa as well, thanks to the economical boost brought by local elites, and there is a lot of diversity in the statuses and national identities of the remaining countries and regions. Nevertheless, despite the problems mentioned, it would be unfair to say Africa lacks motivation. There are many movements that fight for African identity and Africa's development. Is it going to get richer than the other continents? Unlikely, unless the fourth industrial revolution happens there (which is unlikely in itself). Will it get just as rich as the others? Unless glocal communism wins, unlikely. Capitalism does not tend towards general equality, and those that are richer or in development will keep above most likely. Will it get richer, however? Most likely yes, despite everything. When Asia runs out of cheap labor, it's also likely that Africa will still have more reserves, and that may give a temporary boost to poorer African countries as well. After that, how things will play? Hard to know, but, most likely, Africa will keep getting richer, but also have a hard time surpassing other continents. If in a remote future the world is so prosperous as a whole that patterns of equality start to emerge, though, then it would be far more likely for new African world powers to emerge.

the same reason the us is poor the rich turds took it all.

Ni**ers bro... ni**ers

Revolution only works if the commoners stand a ghost of a chance against the ruling party. When the dictators have access to armies and high power rifles and bombs... well, warfare has changed a lot. It's much easier than it ever was for the ones with wealth and power to retain such things.

Africa has a long and sordid history of dictatorships, exploitation from more developed countries and tragedy that has kept it, shy of certain regions (like Dubai) from pulling back together.

That's not to say it can't happen, and there are wonderful humanitarian efforts out there to help uplift these countries who have suffered so much, but it's a huge undertaking and not something that will be achieved quickly or easily, especially when so many western nations still benefit from the exploitation of cheap labor in third world countries.

A lot of this is chicken and egg, but yeah very inadequate healthcare (access to instruments and medication, as well as just not enough docs and nurses), understandably low morale, in some areas crime, and broke governments. This lady was just explaining to me that many people there want to work but there literally isn't the money there to pay them, not even from govt. Not sure if welfare type programs have a net positive but they lack programs like this, which I do think is unfortunate in the case of those who can't work due to disability or illness. However I'm unsure about brasil, but for the vast majority of people living in India it is the same story and in some cases worse