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I was thinking about the massive amount of geographical diversity across the continent of Africa and the lack of to my knowledge, significant infrastructural development in the 16-1700s. My knowledge of the development within Africa is pretty limited, but what issues in Africa made the adoption of European inventions harder to adopt in Africa?

Examples that come to mind are Windmills, Watermills, Concrete, ect...

This is a pretty complex subject and if any of you have any insight I'd like to know.
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