Reducing a whole continent to a lazy stereotype ignores colonial extraction, unequal trade, conflict, and governance failures that aid alone cannot fix
It’s absolutely WILD how the Romans were building bridges THOUSANDS of years ago and some are still standing and operating today — meanwhile Africans still can’t figure it out.
Sub-Saharan Africa has taken about $1.23 trillion in official aid since 1960. The continent took about $1.3 trillion from 2000 to 2023. The DRC alone has taken $60+ billion and sits on roughly half the world’s cobalt. Donors and contractors have been building and rebuilding roads and bridges there for DECADES.
Nearly 40% of people in sub-Saharan Africa have the internet. They still cannot put up a small public crossing that survives its own opening.