[Guessnotgauss]

Heres a reminder of Gel-Mann amnesia, Im seeing alot of speculative comments on colonialism in a broad sense in Africa. Which is fine, but the nuance is that there were many different colonizers, they left all at different times, and their influence is very much still being used to maintain resource rights and extraction. Without a small bit of history and perspective you might assume the dictators are a direct result of their respective people's poor choices. The cold war wasnt easy on Africa. People are still desperate for changes that aren't serving the status quo.

Did anyone do their degree in comparitive politics of Africa?

Political Science is hard because everyone has such a strong bias and a lot to say about it. Dont forget your grains of salt.