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ElatedVenusaur posted...

That's entirely wrong. Even aside from Egypt, you have the Nubians, who built tons of pyramids and ruled over Egypt for a bit. You have Ethiopia, which was quite active, including invading Arabia as early as the 6th-century. The various Somalian and Swahili states south and east of there were extremely active in trade and comparatively powerful during the Islamic Golden Age. Then you have West Africa, which was a vibrant patchwork of kingdoms which occasionally produced a mighty empire(Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Sokoto, etc.) And the Kongolese in Central Africa.
Unfortunately(for them), the Europeans pulled ahead at the right time, and the European-fueled slave trade simultaneously left them economically dependent on Europe and badly destabilized many African states(even as it enriched the slavers in the short-term). Even then, they were never all that far behind, they were just fractured politically and economically weak(for the most part) which left them easy pickings for the European powers in the 19th-century.

This is actually valid, the horse answer is pretty valid reason as well, makes sense. So I guess my other question would be why has Africa had stagnated progress in the last 50-60 years after the end of colonization whereas other regions of the world that have been similarly colonized made great economic progress?
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