How has the colonization of Africa created countries riddled with disease?
I’m not sure what the episode 3 thing is about, but the basic points would be: 1. colonists brought with them a bunch of bacteria and diseases to which Africans had no immunity. 2. Colonists facilitated more rapid movement of people around the continent allowing diseases to spread further and faster. 3. Colonists caused an increase in population densities, especially in areas where populations had been low due to a need to have some resistance to endemic local diseases 4. post-colonial Africa is dirty and flat broke. Medical care is limited and patchy and at best. Public sanitation (sewerage etc.) and water supplies are not good. Such conditions breed disease. 5. Education is poor, thus education about disease prevention is poor.
