Exactly. The famous “Great Green Wall” of Africa had 80% of its trees die because numbers are more important than sustainability.

It was a criminal art dealer who stole the artifacts, not the US. The US didn’t even know he had the artifacts until they arrested him.

The primarily conservative Supreme Court wouldn’t comply, which ties back to their point about Democrats not having the necessary political power to push back against extremism

I’m not “proposing” anything as a single explanation for Africa’s underdevelopment because it’s obviously not that simple. I’m just saying that resources exacerbate Africa’s existing problems instead of solving them. That’s how the resource curse works, it only entrenches intrastate conflict and corruption but it doesn’t create it out of nowhere.

What are you mean? The DRC is one of the primary sources of resource curse scholarship in regards to the role of conflict resources (blood diamonds) in sustaining intrastate conflict. I think you might be thinking of a very narrow definition of the resource curse in the context of rentierism

Vast mineral wealth is not conducive to national wealth, peace, or development. It actually has the opposite effect. It’s a phenomenon called the Resource Curse and it’s extremely well-documented in the context of Africa.

Discriminatory standards come from people who are unfamiliar with ethnic hair assuming that such styles are unprofessional. It’s never direct “fuck you” discrimination, a lot of it is subtle and subconscious.