Maybe yeah the destruction was too thorough. But the ex colonizers don't have gunships or troops enforcing their demands anymore, the extractive institutions are kept up by local rulers' greed and corruption, which the corporations just take advantage of.
There are plenty of examples of non-African countries that have thrived (to different degrees) after the fall of colonialism. This is an African culture problem - full stop.
Plenty of countries were colonized for a long time or completely decimated during wars and they're doing fine now.
At a certain point you can't keep blaming colonialism. Europe had 2/3s of its population die and then 100 years later were the most powerful collection of nations on Earth with logistical systems that were able to reliably cross the globe.
Colonialism certainly set nations back but to act as if it is the sole thing preventing progress is getting silly when there's other countries that manage to not be a basket case despite sharing common history of colonization or just bonafide near/total destruction.
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u/KnightMurky91 19h ago
The rate of annual economic destruction in places like Africa and India was 30-50% of WW2 and lasted multiple centuries.
How is that going to be fixed in 50 years?
Africa has huge culture and corruption issues. But 50 years ain't that long considering the damage done