And this is why Africa as a continent is poor. Their own fault.

The big problem of the people in Africa is they want to have everything white people (or Chinese or Japanese people or South Americans) have without inventing it themselves, wihtout creating it themselves, just like that, pof... the genie of the lamp made it happen for you.

They want cars; Mercedes, Toyota, Chrisler, etc, invented bit by bit, piece by piece, including the technology to make them, during over 4000 years of slow but steady progress in science of metals, design, plastics, thermodynamics by; Europeans, Japanese, Chinese, etc, but without taking part in the effort of creating those technologies, without getting their hands dirty into designing, understanding, making.

I saw absurdly smart African geniuses aged 10 to 60 years old taking apart European technologies, fixing them without instructions, modifying them without instructions, using American, European, Asian tools like welding machines, milling machines, drilling machines, cement, lime, whatever, without schooling and without having instructors, so they are not stupid:
but the culture is stupid, preventing those geniuses to grow and give back technlogy, them worked in absurdly improper conditions on a dusty flor of dried mud contaminating the parts with dust from just walking around, because nobody explained them the damage they do to the technology by not keeping the tools clean inside out.

And what the rich Africans do?

Buy ready made in Europe and shit on the local geniuses, disconsider them, piss on their head, hire bodyguards to beat them at the end of a job instead of paying them, robing them of their work.

No way the African culture can achieve any progress like that, ever.

You must change the culture, you want to have European and American advantages, stop buying them ready made, treat your local geniuses well, pay them, repect them, send them to teach eachother, make your own univeristies, not for the rich, but for the geniuses that can bring you progress at the same level with us, because this is how we do it.

Taking US or France or Belgium or Dutch or UK bribes to keep your nations in slavery and steal your nations wealth is not going to achieve that, sending your youth to schools in Europe is a waste since they know that returning in Africa for them it means losing status, so they stay here and the countries that you send them into are harvesting their geniality for a profit while Africa loses them, their geniality, and it's own future.

Change the way you approach the African poor people, treat them like the geniuses they are, and in return you will lift Africa to European levels of civilisation (which is far from perfection, but for now is the best we have, everybody copied it, US, The Americas, Asia, Australia, because for now there is no better, but they copied the right thing: schools and respect for brainiacs even if poor, and in donating to poor geniuses money for schooling, tools, studies and travel to meet other geniuses to exchange know how)