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Thank you for providing a great example that you can get a lot of upvotes on LW for totally making shit up, as long as it resonates with some LWer's prejudice.
For people naively upvoting billswift's bullshit, . For example in the most populous African country Nigeria life expectancy in 1950 was 35 years. Last year it was 48 years. You'll see such improvement in nearly every country, and this accelerated drastically in early 1990s, about the same time as Americans and Soviets stopped having proxy wars in which locals got killed.
An experiment someone should do at some point (if it hasn't already been done):
Divide (educated Western) subjects into two groups. Ask the first group how much they think life has improved in a particular African country since decolonization, without mentioning the date of the latter. Ask the second group how much they think life in that country has improved since 1950 (or whatever the actual appropriate date for "decolonization" is for the country selected), without mentioning colonization. Compare the results.
Prediction: the second group's answer will be higher.