>>513686267Well if religion and colonization at one point are your bar then no black-controlled African countries exist in the modern day, I don't think religion makes as big of an impact on development as you think it is. Most of what Botswana has was made by them, not by Europeans simply because the Africans practice a semitic religion adopted by Europeans.
>>513686742What's it matter where the money comes from? Nobody denies that the gulf countries are successful and they're entirely propped up by oil. That's not even mentioning how a big chunk of Russia and Canada's economies are also led by natural resources. The coup was also not the best, but political stability and QoL are two different things in this example.