what they can sell of the land is owned by shell and debeer's-fucked in the ass #1. you're also missing parts of the population that earn the most-the young men who should be 36 are all dead. war and violence lead to innovation most of the time, but not for SO LONG fought with weapons bought from victor bout, no development at all-just 40-year old light arms.

nasty diseases everywhere compared to the rest of the world and shit for care is counter to development(read diamond and sowell or that book on the plague that's in paperback now).

NO HIGHER LEARNING AND LITERATE PEOPLE ARE "WINNERS" that portends poorly for signing shit over to the west or knowing WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON UNTIL IT'S RIOT TIME AGAIN.

mix in leaders who roll in phat gold-plated cars, CONSTANT warfare, ZERO literacy, AIDS AIDS AIDS, and the fact that they just do STUPID SHIT LIKE AGREE TO SELL FISH TO EUROPE OUT OF A LARGE LAKE WHILE THE FISHERMEN'S FAMILIES STARVE.

Also, you have SERIOUS problems ever getting a chance to play even-colonialism REALLY just turned into MONETARY POLICY-see france for what can be done getting your old colonies to sign onto special francs.