Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "Cohen calls Trump a racist: 'In private, he's even worse'" video.
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In chronological order:
Loss of manpower. While African tribes initially did sell other tribes' POWs and/or criminals to Europeans, they eventually ran out. This was when Europeans began taking people of all kinds in raids on the mainland.
Loss of economic potential: being a colony meant that all industrial infrastructure was created solely to send goods and services to other countries. (ex: India's railway system pales in comparison to what it could have achieved on its own).
Lack of unity: when African nations were divided and, several hundred years later, given their independence, the lines drawn were again arbitrary. The tribes within each country have grudges thousands of years old, so forcing them into the same space and calling them a country made civil war (of which there are many in Africa) inevitable.
Think what would happen if Turkey and Greece were forced to be a single nation, or Ukraine, Poland, and Germany. Tell me that those would be stable.
That's basically what happened in Africa— Europe's tribes had time to band together and build borders; Africa's climate does not allow for that. So when Europeans came in, they made borders based on their needs, not Africans'.
Hope this helps
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