Should the West re-colonize Africa?
Good idea. Main difficulty would be corruption – as it is today in Africa. The multi-national specialists would steal some of the money and the Africans the rest. Under Mao, the Chinese spent 3 years and all sorts of sweat and expense building a rail line between Dar-es-Salaam and the interior (about 2000 km). Entirely free. They got nothing in return except malaria. Today the line has fallen into almost total disuse and decrepitude. Look at South Africa : black rule has all but destroyed the rule of law and corruption so damaged economic development that the country is wobbling, altho, alongside Zimbabwe it appears rock-solid.
