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Why does most African Countries stay a 3rd world country?

After all the help we send and other countries as well, i mean seriously. Why are they still 3rd world countries?

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1. Because European countries screwed them over. I mean, really, look at it. Where ever Spain, Portugal, or Britain have tried to establish empires, the countries are screwed up, e.g., Latin America.
2. the vast majority of countries on the planet are third world countries
3. There governments
4. Because they are Dictatorships. The people have no power and the governments own everything. Individual Freedom is the only way people prosper.
5. Education lacks in all these countries. They're about 120 years behind.
6. Its because every time theres a power vacuum every war lord tries to take over the country. So its basically just a cycle. Muddle of Pud: and what was the USA? Oh yeah thats right we used to be a colony of Britain. Idiot.
7. drought, corrupt government. I would think it's pretty hard to advance when you can't feed yourself, never mind your eight kids.
8. Because they print money.
9. Because the world powers keep them that way so they can suck the natural resources out of them. One of the biggest culprits is China. The situation in the Sudan is directly related to the Chinese government. They want to have cheap materials from the Sudan so they can keep making cell phones so they pay off the government. In short, the 1st world is what keeps 3rd world countries the way they are......
10. They're corrupt dictatorships that are either Marxist based or lean heavily to the left. The countries are also still divided along tribal lines. As for Africa's past involving European colonialism, that's a load of bunk. It's been centuries since that happened and doesn't explain why when the rest of the world was developing, Africa stayed stuck in the Stone Age.