Why is sub-Saharan Africa still essentially in the Stone Age?

Question

How long will it take for these "people" to evolve?

Answer 1

You understand neither the stone age, nor evolution.

Answer 2

I think the "people" you are referring to are the Type of Person you are!

"Those" people are not "UN"evolved they are living in poverty due to  many reasons that I will not even attempt to explain to you...because it would be met by a blank stare.

Or they are living a much simpler way of life that isn't sucking the planet dry of it's resources! -which sounds pretty "evolved" to me!

My Question is just when are idiots like you going to evolve into a human being?



I've heard alot of ignorant and uneducated comments on YA , but this one is right up there with the worst.

Answer 3

Actually, they weren't even totally "stone age" before the Europeans arrived.  They had even manufactured iron.  Africa is  devoid of navigable rivers making transportation and steel manufacturing impractical.  Political strife, lack of freedom, and lack of good agriculture has kept them poor.  Because they are not connected to Eurasia, they have become susceptible to many Eurasian diseases.

Answer 4

Really?  Then why is it, when my Zulu husband wants to contact home, he just calls them on their cell phones (or sends them an email)?

Answer 5

They're not. If you want to subject the culture of

Sub-Saharan Africa to a westernized view of what it is to be civilized, which anthropologically isn't fair but it still works. They use computers, cell phones, birth control, guns, drive cars.... the list goes on. They also go to college, become doctors, lawyers, economists, Nobel Prize winners. Oh and did I mention use metal tools?