Britinafrica, I didnt call you a racist. I just love history and where I live, the debate about the colonization is still alive...
And I'm shocked to see people here talk about the benefits of colonization while they know that in that time, they used chemical weapons to exterminate riotting villages...
And I'm not an expert about Sub-Saharean Africa, but I dont think that it can be so different there... The people who colonized these countries were not so different from the people who colonized the Arab countries in the north.
Who forced the idea of democracy onto them? It was their own people and leaders not the colonists.
I'm confused. Do you talk about the present? or the Past? before the colonization or after? maybe inbetween?
Whatever, these people never had the chance to get democracy... I mean real democracy, not just lies on TV...
And their leaders were the puppets of the colonial empires.
Do you honestly think that an African king will give his people the right to chase him to replace him by a president?
of course not. But maybe that with time, through education... His people will riot and get rid of the king and replace him by a better ruler...
Or maybe that through education, this kingdom could turn into a monarchy like in Spain or the UK?
But it didnt work like that... One day, the colonial empires came there, and treated people like monkeys... they told them "this how civilized people live, you are savages, you cant think for yourselves, so let us do that for you"...
And then they killed anyone speaking up against them... and never took the time to ask people what they want...
How can you come after that and be surprised if the people there cant speak up and cant make their own system to rule their lives...
It's because we took down the people who do that there. It's because we did everything to turn them into slaves.
Why the Turkish people doesnt have this problem? because they were never under the ruling of a colonial empire. Their people is still proud and ready to defend the motherland...
And you must admit that we did a lot of damage in these countries...
If they were so bad... There would be no black man in Africa... They would have starved to death for centuries before the white man gets there...