What if Africa was NEVER colonized??

[Micky Mikey]

Would it still be behind the rest of the word technologically and economically?
This video was a little disheartening. The narrator suggests that even if Africa was never colonized it would still be primitive compared to the rest of the world and an endless cycle of tribal warfare. Now of course ,nobody really know how such an alternative history would have played out.
What do you guys think?
Would Africans ever have came up with the same technological inventions that Europe and Asia did? Would Africa have been a competitor economically and militarily?

 

[JahFocus CS]

The Scramble for Africa wasn't the only thing that negatively impacted the continent. There was also this little thing called the Transatlantic Slave Trade (the Maafa) that stole tens of millions of people from their homelands. That's a lot of labor, a lot of brain power, a lot of strong spirits, and a lot of human capital ripped away from African societies. Then there was also the Arab invasions and slave trade.

Such a Eurocentric video. Not being organized into a "state" does not make a society politically unsophisticated or underdeveloped. More "humans are naturally brutal" nonsense

Jared Diamond pointed out how the climate, environment, and fauna of the other continents compared to Eurasia affected their material development. What we know is that for a good chunk of known history, there were African societies that were among the most materially advanced in the world. In alternate timelines I do not see why that would not still be the case.

 

[EndDomination]

There are thousands of ways Africa could have developed had it not been colonised.
The divisions and countries would be entirely different. The Arab Slave Trade and Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade had a tremendous impact on the people of the continent.
If they were eliminated too, then Africa may have experienced "creative destruction" of many traditional modes of being, and industrial/agricultural methods, and much of the continent would be in much better shape. Not to mention the insane amount of resources that wouldn't have been exploited, and that instead would have worked toward making a specific territory much more economically powerful.
The continent would have a much higher population, and many of the countries would have participated more fully in World War I and World War II.
This is a massive mental exercise.

 

[CHL]

I can tell what kind of video this is going to be

 

[TTT]

It is ultimately a counterfactual that cannot be taken seriously. The entire premise of only the European trading posts remaining is so bad that the presenter even dismissed it but still proceeded to use it as a base of his argument. It is especially bad considering the Dutch and the British were eventually going to start exploring the interior anyway because of characters like Cecil Rhodes. It is a thinly veiled "colonialism wasn't all bad" argument done in a not so subtle manner that the presenter was going for in the video.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Gloss over the Arab slave trade and Arabization in the op, Brehs.

 

[Fenian]

Dont know how things would have turned out but there's no way in hell anyone can convince me thing wouldn't be better for a continent if their people weren't murdered, enslaved and had all their shyt stolen.