# First, complacency. Africa is quite comfortable for human habitation. Food is plentiful. So-called natural disasters basically don't happen across 70-odd percent of the continent. People became complacent, in many ways. There was no need for "development" in terms of social organisation, so genetics stopped selecting for those kinds of traits and went back to selecting for fast running and a good spear-chucking arm. # Second, climate change. No, I'm not talking about "global warming", but I am talking about desertification. The massive Sahara grassland became a desert, and the nations of Africa were largely cut off from the rest of the world. Not only did this stop them from being able to pilfer cultural, social, and technological developments from other nations, but also made them ignorant of the world at large. Their most dangerous enemy was the occasional lion. No wonder they grew soft and lazy after inventing the long spear and the basic hunting tactics. # Third, colonialism (done badly). I don't think other nations were wrong to annex land in Africa - as the philosophers say, "shit happens", and you're either the conqueror or the conqueree. Where they did go wrong was in attempting baby's first socioculturual uplift, and then just giving up on the process because some people felt it was *a bit mean*. By the end of the colonial era, Africa was left with the civic infrastructure, governmental systems, and social expectations of Europe - none of which works for Africans because thousands of years of genetic and cultural drift happened and they're just not the same as Europeans are. So there was friction, there was strife, old tribal rivalries were rebooted, governments collapsed, inefficiency, nepotism, and corruption reigned. Then the commies attacked. # Fourth, communism. In the words of that gentleman and scholar, Richard Marcinko: "God-damn cock-breath commie motherfuckers!" Communism got big in Africa - the USSR invested heavily in the idea and the marketing was well-tuned to a populace who felt as if they'd gone from one shitty, oppressive overlord to another, only the new boss was more shoot-happy than the old boss. Naturally, it was the rich people's fault! (Hey, nobody ever claimed commies made sense, or could think, or weren't technically a sort of vegetable) Since the USSR upped and died, it seems that the torch of slow-fucking the dark continent has been passed to the Illegal Communist Occupation of Mainland Taiwan. # Fifth, foreign aid. So now we've got an Africa, cargo-cultishly clinging to European-style government, running on old, shoddily-maintained infrastructure, with a big red chip on its shoulder and a sincerely indoctrinated belief that everyone's out to exploit them, and how does the world proceed to treat them? They spoil them rotten. Suddenly, it's free money, free food, medical aid, education programs, private charities, national endowments, and nothing less that a combination of fawning fetishisation and no-spine grovelling, and this in response to nothing more than bad behaviour and a sense of entitlement. So of course they keep doing it. When they throw tantrums, it seems to be working. And that's basically the story of how niggers are made.