African Independence

After World War II the British colonies in Africa said no more to being controlled by the British. They started by collecting money and sending their sharpest people to Europe to learn how to run a country and also to get to know their culture and be more "up to date". Also those people pleaded the British constantly for more rights for Africans so they can improve their lives and reach the goal which was independence. Something like that has been done in Kenya, its people sent Jomo Kenyatta to Europe for that purpose. But some Africans thought if they acted with violence they would scare the British off and be independent that way. The people that believed in those way were called the Mau Mau in Kenya.  

Even though many African countries got their independence back they did not know how to RUN a country much less how to make the population function like those in Europe. Most of the Africa's countries are maybe 50 to about 70 years old, they're still developing their government and because of that those countries are very poor. Poverty, war, and famine exist in most of those countries.