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Identify the problems that 2 African countries have faced since Independence. To what extent can these problems be fully attributed to Colonization?  

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African History- Problems after Independence Identify the problems that 2 African countries have faced since Independence. To what extent can these problems be fully attributed to Colonization? As the population of white settlers increased in Africa due to colonization, the problems faced by the native Africans increased. Problems such as tribal disputes within borders created by the European colonialists, immense poverty among Africans, and neglected European promises thrived in all African countries. To the Africans it seemed that independence was the only way out of such crises and so after almost 40 years of colonial rule, war against colonization broke out as an attempt to construct a better Africa. By the 1970s independence was gained and liberated Africans had begun to make their own decisions, but it seemed that Africa had gone from bad to worse. Poverty, starvation, diseases, corruption and civil wars broke out over Africa, darkening an already 'dark...

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