The African continent is famous for its poverty… But many people don’t know the complete reason why Africa is so poor. In this video we will look from the point when African countries were rich and powerful, how over the centuries Africa lost its wealth, and why Africa hasn’t been able to crawl out of it’s poverty while so many other countries and former colonies have.

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SOURCES
https://www.economist.com/briefing/20...
https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam...
https://academicjournals.org/article/...
The history of African poverty by numbers: Evidence and vantage points https://www.mortenjerven.com/wp-conte...
https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/sci...
https://academicjournals.org/article/...
Keith Somerville's 'Africa's Long Road Since Independence'
All articles in this series: https://www.economist.com/special-rep...
Ethnic groups in Africa: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...

FURTHER READING
https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam...

FURTHER WATCHING:
Likely future for Africa:    • A new scramble for Africa  
Africa before the Scramble:    • What happened to the many African Kin...  
   • History Summarized: Atlantic Exploration  
   • MAURITIUS: The FISCAL PARADISE of AFR...  
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Pictures of Arnaldo Tamayo. Author: Escla - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...