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non-gravity said:
forest-spirit said:

Africa is what it is thanks to Europeans gangraping it for centuries.

I think the gangraping only lasted a century at max.

That is the period mainland africa was taken into the worldwide web.

Not that there was much to gangrape in the first place, as Africa missed the industrial revolution, except for maybe Ethiopa which Italy managed to occupy only by 1936. 

I'll start off by saying that forest-spirit is exactly right.

The only problem I have with your post though, non-gravity, is that the gang-raping never ever stopped.  It's still going on 'til this day.  That is a fact.

Secondly, Ethiopia is one of the least developed African nations.  Seriously.  The Industrial Revolution only happened in Europe - the rest of the world was colonized by Europe.  When countries were autonomous, they played catch up to develop their nations.  This hasn't really happened in most of Africa for obvious reasons.

And the Italian so-called "occupation" of Ethiopia was a disaster.  It was really only an occupation of Addis Ababa, Dire Dawa, Harer, Mekele, Axum, and Adwa (along with some points in between).  The Ethiopian resistance was in firm control of the countryside.