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Disinterested posted:Is there a major sub-saharan 'success story' that's used as a commonplace example of a model to follow in recent years, and if so, what are the politics of that. Botswana got off pretty well. It was basically just a huge patch of land with a tiny population and a bunch of wildlife; they petitioned the British for independence and got it fairly smoothly because nobody had any real interests there. Soon after they discovered the largest diamond mines in the world which gave their economy a strong boost. The average Botswanan is by no means wealthy but they have a very strong banking system and a lot of the diamond revenue has gone back into improving the country's social services. They've managed to stay out of most major violent conflicts as far as I'm aware, and the country has a fairly homogeneous tribal makeup, which has kept internal conflicts from occurring. It's not perfect of course; the HIV/AIDS epidemic hit Botswana really hard. But other than that major issue, the country is stable, peaceful, economically strong, and is in fact the least corrupt country in Africa (not a high bar to set, but still)
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