[Smartass]

Africa is doing poorly according to whom?
If you read history you may free yourself of the feeling of despair and frustration at the fate of Africa
Civilisations rise and fall, when the Chinese and Japanese had well planned cities with roads and sewage disposal methods the Europeans lived in cramped buildings and emptied their chamber pots on to the streets, it was not genius or planning that led them to change but calamity in the from of the plague and cholera.
When Pythagoras was seeking mathematical knowledge in Timbuktu the worlds centre of learning (in the Mali kingdom) the Europeans were fighting tribal wars When the pharaohs who were black (check out the pictures on Prof, Manu Ampim site) he Europeans were hunter gatherers.
My point is Kingdoms rise and wane. Who would have thought the sun would ever set on the British Empire or the USSR would crumble or the dollar would weaken or that there would be another currency to counter the dollar?

Do not despair its just our place in time in the vicissitudes of life we have had our highs these are our lows