The African continent is famous for its poverty… But many people don’t know the complete reason why Africa is so poor. In this video we will look from the point when African countries were rich and powerful, how over the centuries Africa lost its wealth, and why Africa hasn’t been able to crawl out of it’s poverty while so many other countries and former colonies have. Social Media Discord: https://discord.gg/JYCYPvqba6 Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryScope/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScopeHistory Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialhistoryscope/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/averythingchannel/ My music playlist while animating:    • My Music Playlist   SOURCES https://www.economist.com/briefing/2015/08/01/learning-unleashed https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/fpc/Documents/nous-connaitre/deloitte-afrique-francophone/deloitte_africa-ceo-forum-the-private-sector-driving-force.pdf https://academicjournals.org/article/article1425047376_Asafa.pdf The history of African poverty by numbers: Evidence and vantage points https://www.mortenjerven.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/JAH-Poverty-Jerven.pdf https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/science/020113/great-achievements-in-stem-in-ancient-africa https://academicjournals.org/article/article1425047376_Asafa.pdf Keith Somerville's 'Africa's Long Road Since Independence' All articles in this series: https://www.economist.com/special-report/2020/03/26/africa-is-changing-so-rapidly-it-is-becoming-hard-to-ignore Ethnic groups in Africa: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Africa_ethnic_groups_1996.png FURTHER READING https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/fpc/Documents/nous-connaitre/deloitte-afrique-francophone/deloitte_africa-ceo-forum-the-private-sector-driving-force.pdf FURTHER WATCHING: Likely future for Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqRVlGFNn60 Africa before the Scramble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIcNzN0zmqU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXFcGj_CsmY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfTZfJoUb84 Credits Pictures of Arnaldo Tamayo. Author: Escla - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en