ninebucks
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Infrastructure in some of the former settler colonies was pretty good, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Namibia come to mind.
Well, the motivations behind running settler colonies and other kinds of colonies are significantly different.
You can't sell natural rescourses after independence?
Sure, it keeps those nations vulnerable for every global change in the price of those recourses but that's better then the state of continued poverty it's in now.
The fact that those nations are vulnerable to the price-fixing of Western commodity-merchants is the reason why poverty continues. Without an appropriate infrastructure, developing nations aren't able to diversify, instead just sticking to the same extractive industries. Diverse economies are less vulnerable, and thus more powerful; and countries that rely entirely on only a handful of industries are weaker, and ripe for exploitation.
Being able to sell your natural resources is no power at all, not when the same people who once occupied your nation control the prices.