Was Africa better under European Control?

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Rath said:

pizzahut451 said:

Wars are not the only problem in Africa. Diseases, poverty and prostitution are alos one of Africa's major problems.

Prostitution in itself can hardly be considered a major problem can it? I mean you could argue that it spreads HIV but very little of the HIV in Africa is due to prostitution...

Also Africa would probably be better off if it had never been colonized. Independent nations would have adopted Western technology and eventually advanced on their own. No saying what it would have turned out like, but I doubt it would be as bad as the current situation with arbitrary borders causing massive ethnic strife.

This is damn near the top of my "Alternate history what ifs" i'd ask about if I had a machine that could run simulations.  That and "What if the size of the world was more well known in the 1400's.  IE, what would North America look like if people didn't settle there.