dark continent

AFRICA is known as the dark continent because of its history that lies within it.It's history is built in European expansion in the form of imperialism.                                                                                      WHY DIDN'T AFRICA DEVELOP LIKE OTHER CONTINENTS COLONIZED BY                                        EUROPE?                                                                                                                                  Most of African countries got their independence much later than other American counterparts and had longer and deeper periods of colonization than Europe's Asian colonies. Add caption It also doesn't help since more of the Africa is landlocked than anywhere else in the world. The poor access to ocean shipping makes it much more difficult to build an export economy.                 Another issue is resource trap whereas leadership in a countries that are rich in mineral wealth have little incenti