After the independence of many African countries (not all, for example, Ethiopia was never really colonized), the countries struggled both politically and economically - even more than before the independence.
A huge reason for that is that the countries were not formed along the ethnic lines, but instead they were divided by the Europeans among themselves, so when the independence was gained, there were many internal conflicts between the ethnicities and religions.
One example for this was the Rwandan Genocide - a result of the conflict between the Hutu and the Tutsi.
That is know as the Kuiper Belt.
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Explanation:
San Andreas Transform Plate Boundary
The transform plate boundary between the Pacific and North American Plates in western California formed fairly recently. About 200 million years ago, a large tectonic plate (called the Farallon Plate) started to subduct beneath the western edge of North America.
The Ice Ages shaped and sculpted the face of the Earth. Continents that were once connected by land bridges had shifted and separated during the Ice Ages. Therefore without the Ice Ages, Earth would look significantly different, and some of the natural beauties like Niagra Falls would not exist.