>>63970929
Okay. The Haitian Revolution. They fought the armies of Napoleon, headed by Napoleon's own kin, and won, then immediately turned around and conquered the Spanish side of the island.
This had the effect of removing a significant financial base from France during Napoleon's wars and killed their North American ambitions, causing them to sell the Louisiana territory to the USA.
>>63970946
>Never mind that blaming geography is just meaningless deflection, as peoples with the will and know how migrated to better places. Various migrations in African history, many as late as the early 20th century, demonstrate that they had the intelligence to move around within Africa, just not enough to think of moving out of it.
>Mali, 1312.
>Every Berber group west of the Ayr Massif.
>Aksum.
And moving out isn't even necessary. Immediately after the Brazil colonization attempt failed, Musa went to the heart of the Islamic world and broadcast the country's riches to attract talent, allowing them to get around their own geography's limitations.