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By 1619, more than a century and a half after the Portuguese first traded slaves on the African coast, European ships had brought a million Africans to colonies and plantations in the Americas and force them to labor as slaves.
<span>Hughes seems sarcastic because the language that he uses is sarcastic. He is aggravated over the treatment of African Americans in Harlem at that time. He directs his sarcasm toward white people. He is aggravated that there are still many places that African American's cannot go (clubs), including a club called the Cotton Club. His feelings are justified because discrimination was alive and well during this time period.</span>
Nigeria had much division between tribal/ethnic groups vying with one another for power, and thus were not working together for a united purpose. Nigeria's wealth of natural resources also gave them much to be fighting over as the groups each sought advantage.
Botswana, on the other hand, was one of the poorest countries in the world when it gained its independence from Britain in 1966, and it avoided infighting and political corruption like that seen in Nigeria. They have been a multi-party democracy since that time -- the longest-running multi-party democracy on the African continent. Botswana enjoyed significant economic growth also as it worked together politically.
