re: Was sub-Saharan Africa better off under colonial rule?

Much of the same areas are still under colonialism by the Chinese, but they just don't know it.

China owns most of their governments because those small nations cannot repay the loans that were "given" to them by the Chinese for infrastructure deals, and now China owns them after they default.

They soulless Maoists still strip mine the land of all its vast resources, but they also don't give a Yuan one for government and societal structure like the French and Dutch and other Western powers did.

Whether you like it or not, European colonialism works for the uncivilized lands.