Why has Africa been less developed than Europe and Asia throughout human History?

Africa has not always been less developed than Europe. Up until about 1500 AD, Africa as a continent had been either more developed than Europe, or about equal to Europe in terms of development.

The statistics below which shows a comparison of the GDP per Capita for the two regions between 1 AD and the year 2008, illustrates my point:

You can clearly see from the the number for the year 1AD that average GDP per Capita for Western Europe was $575, and that of Africa excluding Egypt was $472.

Later around 1000 AD, Western Europe’s average GDP per Capita had shrunk to $427, which was almost equal to Africa’s average GDP per Capita around that time of $425.

At around 1500 AD when the slave trade started and sparked wars all over Africa, you see the average GDP of Western Europe starting to take off, at $771 USD, while the average per Capita GDP of Africa declines to $414 USD.

For those who do not understand when we say the Europeans through the Atlantic Slave trade and Subsequent colonization caused the underdevelopment of Africa, the above statistics is all that you need to draw your own conclusions.

If we go a step further to 1870 (a time when Africa had felt the full impact of the…