It still doesn't take away his point completely, yes they benefit from Africa being stable, but they still pushed Africa down to help themselves. Also, Africa did have enough problems before, but that was because shitty leaders got to power. If they had a little bit of European influence, but not slavery, or other forms of hierarchy among them, it would be perfect. Examples of this are places in southeast Asia, and in a way Japan, they both were powerful but with their own problems, but a little European influence helped them rise up.
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