Africa: the White man's burden????

Well, I suppose that in the 1960s, with many new states being set up and the grip of colonialism finally falling away, the nations just wanted to modernise, despite what would have happened afterwards. The other problem is the governmental structure - when the colonials left, the old states of Africa (which were now being run in a pseudo-colonial fashion) which the Africans were familiar with, were doing fairly well. But when nationalism set in, however, and people began to set up their own states, they did so without any european assistance and thus the entire framework for the states was flawed. Also, tribal warfare and competition crept into these new states, with nepotism and corruption in the government being rifle.

Originally posted by Almazy  just ignorance and nothing else truth is africa had many civilizations and created kigdoms waaay before "the white man" came. the reason why africa has so much problems today is because of colonialism.

And there is no difference between sub-Saharan Africa and northern Africa as far as being a continent. That's just a label that was put on Africa. It just means south of the Sahara desert. But Africa is Africa.

Originally posted by Surmount And there is no difference between sub-Saharan Africa and northern Africa as far as being a continent. That's just a label that was put on Africa. It just means south of the Sahara desert. But Africa is Africa.

Originally posted by Surmount All it means is south of the sahara

But there is more meaning to it than that. The Sahara acted as a natural barrier to trade and population movement between North Africa and the rest. North Africa was largely isolated from the rest, with the exception of the Nile and some trans-Saharan traders. North Africa was therefore influenced by one of the greatest conduits for cultural and population transportation the world has ever known: the Mediterranean Sea. It was this channel of water which linked North Africa to the civilisations of the Middle East and Europe, which have provided by far the greatest influence on the development of civilisation in North Africa.

No

The only difference is north Africa was Arabized

Arabization is the gradual transformation of an area into one that speaks Arabic and is part of the Arab culture. It can also mean the replacement or displacement of a native population with Arabs, although this rarely happened in ancient times, as there weren't nearly sufficient numbers of original Arabs to replace or displace existing populations.

The rest of Africa is of the same black negroid race

The only difference is the very top countries of north Africa was Arabized

Arabization is the gradual transformation of an area into one that speaks Arabic and is part of the Arab culture. It can also mean the replacement or displacement of a native population with Arabs, although this rarely happened in ancient times, as there weren't nearly sufficient numbers of original Arabs to replace or displace existing populations.

The rest of Africa is of the same black negroid race

Originally posted by Surmount The rest of Africa is of the same black negroid race

And for once I agree with pinguin (who treats me as his enemy) on what he said about who studies African archeology.

Ok i see what your trying to defend.

But why do you label all those groups you listed, why do you refer to them in the way you do?

Those groups you listed have no malicious intention.

Don't feel like they are attacking you.