The leaders in Africa wanted guns but the
slaves themselves wanted guns to protect
themselves from being captured and sold into slavery. All the guns were being sold by EU and Americas.
The hardship of a country, example: poverty, crime rate
immigrating would lead to discrimation due to race but a better life if employed
Their lack of a good trading system. Since they had no Beasts of Burden (Camals) they couldn’t transfer their goods to any trading port.
Another problem was that there rulers after were terrible and did nothing but strengthen the army
The French Monarch in the earlier times had no problem spending money and they also made a lot of spending because they got this money by taxing the people of France and they also taxed the nobles who had a lot of money.
This harsh taxation which was also unfair and inefficient in structure by the monarchs resulted in the crisis in France and ultimately led to the french revolution.
These taxes were also raised at a very high rates making lives of people of France very tough.