Africa is rich in gold, diamonds (at one point South Africa alone produced a third of all global production) and elements such as iridium, nickel, cobalt and more. It is currently being recolonised by the Chinese because it has enormous stores of mineral wealth, and large numbers of sexually available women to match the horny hordes of ‘one child policy’ Chinese men.
Parasites are easily dealt with by functional societies and over half the continent is temperate or tropical. Stop blaming Africa for the failure of Africans.
Australia is possibly the driest continent on earth and harbors a wide variety of venomous and dangerous critters, yet it only took a hundred and twenty years for European whites to build a functional independent nation and another hundred after that to have some of the best living conditions on earth. Luck? Hardly. Australian aboriginals had eons there and basically did fuck-all but wipe out the megafauna, desertify the interior with fire stick farming, and eat their own children.
It is people who make a nation, not the land they live upon.