Why Did The Europeans Takeover Africa

Around the 1870’s Europeans came and started to takeover Africa. Before they even came, Africa had a very stable economy. After the settlement of the Europeans, they started taking all the wealth for themselves, which had demolished the economy of Africa. After the imperialism of Africa was seized, Africa became independent. With the Europeans weakening the economy they were already off on the wrong foot. At one point all the world was in poverty, but during that time Africa had the worse case of it. The economy has been very weak, while other countries were rising out of poverty Africa was still going through rough times. Some of the factors from Africa being in poverty currently is diseases, education, jobs, cruel climates, and bad soils