The reason "western" improvements in Africa were lost when whites left is because the improvements were made for the sole purpose of whites. It doesn't help to build railroads when 95% of the country is uneducated and living on a subsistence economy. What the whites really did is build just enough infrastructure to rape those nations of resources. When the "white" countries populations started demanding that blacks be treated fairly and the blacks started agitating for freedom, the whites realized that it would just be cheaper to leave. So when they left, there was no one left behind who could utilize, much less mantain the infrastructure that was present. Building of infrastructure has to be initiated by indigenous governments and with the support of local populations to be effective and longlasting.









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