Why is Africa Poor?

It all started when Portugal started using slave labour by taking the locals in what is now Sao Tome in the 1400s. From that point forward until the abolition f slavery in the 1800s, an estimated 11 million people from modern day:

Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali 

In West Africa and:

Angola, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gabon

In Central Africa were taken from their homes.

European powers like Britain and France as well as Spain were able to do this with the help of the Gambia River which was a key waterway for slave trade. 3.6% of those enslaved were shipped off to America. They were shipped off to the Caribbean like Jamaica or somewhere in South America like Brazil. According to Professor of Economics Nathan Nunn, "The African countries that are the poorest today are the ones from which the most slaves were taken". 

It doesn't stop there. During the age of imperialism European powers invaded, divided and colonised most of Africa except for Ethiopia, a small portion of southern day Somalia and Liberia who remained independent. Why did Europe do this? They were raw materials like metals (tin and copper), edibles (palm oil, cocoa and tea) and other raw materials like cotton, rubber and diamonds in Africa that were good for the European economy. France and Britain had a majority of Africa under colonial rule.

Even Belgium had a part of Africa colonialised though life in the Belgian Congo, especially under the rule of King Leopold the 2nd of Belgium was rather rough if not scary.

Things weren't any better in the lead up to the decolonisation of African countries with misused money which leads to diseases spreading, human resouces, poor infrastructure, climate change and conflict which has led to dictatorships like Francisco Nguema and his nephew's dictatorship in Equatorial Guinea.