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Tribalism and Islamic terrorism are destabilizing democracy in Africa more than the problem of the poor. This is because the poor in Africa are still a traditional poor—that is, they live in rural villages and subsist on traditional agriculture and animal herding. In the emerging African cities, the problem of a majority poor will negatively influence politics in the future.
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King Leopold of Belgium was the worst of the colonialists from Europe. His statue has been removed from Belgium (2020).
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Glassman, R.M. (2021). Africa and the Traditional Poor. In: Can Democracy Survive in the 21st Century?. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76821-8_12
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