Why does Africa continue to underperform?

Africa

An episode of the AGRI NEWS NET podcast, hosted by CRA GROUP, titled "Why does Africa continue to underperform?" was published on September 25, 2025 and runs 8 minutes.

September 25, 2025 ·8m · AGRI NEWS NET

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Summary

Scars remain from nearly all of Africa having been aggressively colonised. Greed mixed with racism to crush long-standing social structures while looting resource wealth. However, many of today’s most dynamic economies are former colonies. Their impressive successes followed colonialism’s uprooting of conventions which were becoming outdated. Perhaps colonialism should be categorised as a particularly ugly phase among a long series of highly disruptive industrial-era advances.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode Description

Scars remain from nearly all of Africa having been aggressively colonised. Greed mixed with racism to crush long-standing social structures while looting resource wealth.

However, many of today’s most dynamic economies are former colonies. Their impressive successes followed colonialism’s uprooting of conventions which were becoming outdated. Perhaps colonialism should be categorised as a particularly ugly phase among a long series of highly disruptive industrial-era advances.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.