I have a unique vista on Africa. A 200 year perspective.
As a graduate student in economics I was hired to read every book and look at every map of sub Sahara Africa before 1850 and record all the economic transactions and prices. The project was for a Professor Miracle at the University of Wisconsin. He later published the first book on African economic history.
I also traveled through West Africa examining development projects in five countries for an organization out of Washington DC, where I was a board member.
I can state authoritatively that the entire sub-Saharan Africa has a common behavior. When anyone generates a success, more income than everyone else, he or she is expected to distribute the surplus to tribal relatives. It is always done.
No one is allowed to rise above the equal income level.
You may know stories about rich tyrants. Since you are not there you are not aware that the rich tyrant has always made his entire tribe rich following the core African value of the equality among tribal members.
There are many explanations, by economic experts, of the reason for Africa's complete absence of development despite an often well-educated workforce and vast natural resources.
Except for the fact that it is a sheer rebuttal to Lefty 'redistributionist' ideology, it must be clear that a society or continent that values equality over everything else, is doomed to economic morass.