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Oh, don't mind me, whiteys. I'm just going to go ahead and enter the iron age before Europe.

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West Africa had a flowering civilisation. They entered the iron age before most of Europe and had a complex, urbanised society. They stagnated and died sometime after Jesus, we don't know why exactly, but I suspect just stagnation. When Europe fell into dark ages, there was contact with the muslims to prop it back up. When China fell behind, Europe invaded it. Africa just sat there.

Nubia and Ethiopia were relatively developed well into the middle ages. Europe surpassed them for the same reasons Europe surpassed the middle east, whatever those reasons may be.

South Africa, of course, was a hole. The impassible Congo probably played a role, but still. I think it was rather sloppy on behalf of the Zulu. Get your shit together.