Human populations adapted to the point where they could thrive in their local environs. Saying one is more evolved than the other is absolutely asinine. Everything on the planet is as evolved as everything else, as they are the most current and therefore most viable form of that organism.
learn2anthropology
Take a gander at how much aid goes to sub-saharan africa and haiti.
So much for that theory
You aren't looking at the whole issue here. This is historical. Most African civilizations were destroyed or massively disrupted by Anglo's for almost 300 hundred years, after which they became colonial protectorates of said European nations, who then raped them of their natural resources, forced Christianity onto mass portions of the populace, and attempted to stamp out indegenous culture wherever possible. On top of bringing in tasty treats like small pox with them wherever they went. After that they had WWII in which we blew up great swathes of North Africa, god knows what else, and then you have even more modern history of Africa which is even more convoluted and I don't know enough about it to speak accurately but let me tell you: It's fuckin' bad. All bad. A lot of implanting of corrupt dictators, hyper-inflation, massive industrial collapse...
Add on top of this the fact that most countries in Africa are run by extremely corrupt governments, which have almost no realistic checks on them except from international watch-dog agencies like the U.N.
IDK man, I'd be pretty hesitant to blame the individual African (which is a huge, HUGE number of people) for the present condition of Africa.
As a little addendum, I'd like to add that many economists are looking to Africa as the next potential boom economy
As for Haiti...lol...their sister country is one of the most corrupt tax havens for the plutocracy on the planet, and their former leaders were literally stealing the blood of it's population to sell for their own private gain. Not to mention that most of the population of Haiti are former slaves who never had any sort of education of infrastructure or industrialization. They literally had to start from scratch in a hostile foreign land.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Duvalier
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Duvalier
^2 of the worst dictators known to history. And you accuse the people of the country of being a lower order person. Goddamn.
As much as this sounds like liberal "guns, germs and steel" goofyness it's essentially true, although some of it is a little oversimplified.
I think something that's really important for people to know is that Libya was almost the answer to this problem. Back in the 1970's, Ghaddafi had socialist leanings and made his "green book"
which was basically Arab nationalism and "direct democracy" which resulted in Chinese levels of economic growth, nationalised oil industry, building aqueducts where people said it'd be impossible to, universal health care/education etc. etc. etc.
But then he started talking this "arab nationalism/death2zionism" shit and the US hit him with sanctions. 30 years after them, Libya still had the highest standard of living in all of Africa, the least amount of income inequality, absolutely NO DEBT (only other country who can boast this is oil rich Brunai run by who at one time was the richest man in the world) high levels of literacy and life expectancy etc. all the while having a RIDICULOUSLY low tax rate and having foreign investment basically outlawed because of US sanctions.
If there was ever a country ripe for investment it was Libya. Producing 1.5 million barrels a day with strategic ports and a ridiculously low tax rate, absolutely no debt as a country, there isn't any more perfect perameters for creating a manufacturing hub. Problem is the sanctions pretty much crippled it and forced more nationalism. Ghaddafi tried playing geopolitics to change the writing on the wall and it didn't work out for him, just pissed off Egypt and he had to pay 50 Billion (or something) for Lockerbie.
Then, 30 years after the US tried to cripple him for promoting Arab nationalism he decides to try to implement an African trade union and create an African currency backed by gold. I don't really care to go into this whole situation but basically it would REALLY FUCK UP the US's money, especially reeling from the financial crisis.
So, the US literally sent in private military contractors and sleeper agents and shit, got the Arab spring shit popping, despite Libya having been (in the 1970's before the sanctions) one of the most decentralized democratic nations (nationalism begets authoritarianism) and having the highest standard of living in Africa with the lowest tax rates and levels of income inequality.
Because "we want 2 b free 2 hav our own failed state"
Now oil production is less then 1/3rd of what it was during the "revolution." Ghaddafi was dragged out and tortured in the streets like a future serial killer abusing a cat
Libya's economy has contracted worse than 30 years of basically being an "illegal country" in the eyes of the UN. There's going to be a puppet implemented who's going to pump out the oil at a cheap rate to fuck Russia over and is going to allow foreign investment into a failed state, making people even more hesitant to invest
Ghaddafi did some good things and bad things, he was sitting on a gold mine that could have united the Arab world/Africa/Europe were it not for outside interference, basically driving him insane.
How would you feel if you ran an oil rich country with the highest standards of living on the continent but can't get anywhere because the worlds biggest superpower keeps fucking with you?
>1970s excellent growth/development rates, decentralized democracy and personal freedoms
>1980s USA gets nervous about Arab nationalism and African development, imposes sanctions over dubious reasons
>ghaddafi centralizes power and takes a "US out of middle east" policy
>ghaddafi gets frustrated and tries to fuck with the US's foreign policy
>realizes sanctions will never end, decides to start a new currency and African union that is less corrupt than the current one
>US is still feeling the financial crises and realizes this will hit them where it hurts so they use they whisper "oy vey" in the ears of some jobless but educated and healthy Libyans
>viva le révolution
>failed state ready for the raping
Thats just one country too, there are many other stories, like Botwana which should be the shittiest country in Africa but no wars and creating the right economic conditions for capitalism resulted in ridiculous growth rates and the fact that no one in North America has ever met a Botwanian because they're too busy working to flee their country
Haitians are cool, I've met far more Haitians than Libyans but never talked about Haiti with them.