Why are you so focused on Africa? Isn't it a desert where everyone's impoverished?
Many people believe that because africa has been impoverished in the past, that it will stay that way and remain less advanced than Western countries.
This is demonstrably false.
Even since the book "Factfullness" by Hans Rosling came out, Africa has made great strides. In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, a group of 15 Kenyan Students developed a portable mechanical ventilator, using 90% locally sourced materials. This saved millions of lives and increased their ventilator resources from 500, to over 30,000. (borgenproject.org) A South African inventor was able to use 3d printers to produce over 100 masks a day that worked as well as any normally developed masks, saving lives when PPE was hardest to come by. (borgenproject.org)
Africa is not a civilization separate from the rest of the world and lagging behind, it is an important part of humanity's march into the future.
The belief that innate factors define a country or person's future is called "The destiny instinct" (Factfullness, Rosling), and many people use this to dismiss Africa, believing that the continent s poor because "That's just how it is". However, all across the world, that is being proven wrong as things change, mostly for the better.
Many people blame cultures in africa for halting progress, but those same cultures are often the very motivators for improvement. Africa is also not a homogenized culture, as one of the largest continents, every country in it has its own culture, or multiple of them. One thing that many cultures in Africa share is a belief in community and supporting each other. The book "Africa At the crossroads:Philisophical Approch To Education" by Festus Okafor (Referanced by GGA.org) describes rural areas of Africa where, when a large project had to be done, entire villages would come out of their homes with the materials, music, and food necessary to get it done, working together both o do the work and to support each other. This community involvement is a major motivator for development as each person is encouraged not just to help themselves, but to help each other as well. However this same community atmosphere can lead to family business that last generations and refuse to hire outside help, even when it would greatly benefit them.