Quote Originally Posted by KingJaja View Post
True, Burma was a disaster, but Botswana, Ghana, Singapore and India have done much better now than under British rule.
Don't know much about Ghana other than it took from independence in 1957 until 1992 for political parties to become legal. Can that be blamed on the Brits?

Botswana was fortunate to find massive diamond deposits one year after independence and now as the diamonds start to run out they have found uranium deposits. That speaks for what has underpinned their economy that has been well managed.

With a population of 2m Botswana is hardly a great example as case studies go.

The downside is the 24% HIV positive rate amongst adults and the genocidal behaviour towards its minority San (Bushman) population. Can't understand why this has not attracted international condemnation.

True, Africans accept bribes, but there isn't a uniform African experience. Some African nations are determined to be basket cases, some are not.
You are going to have to explain that to me as I don't follow.