Put it in a more historical perspective, when the Europeans began work on their empire's, there were only 4 continents where there was mass capitulation and/or submission:

North and South America, Oceania and Africa

The middle east managed to largely hold out, Asia only really suffered thanks to the technological superiority of the Europeans and even then a lot of areas remained under local rule while places like India only were taken thanks to different people siding with the Europeans.

Africa had centuries of contact with both the Arabs and Europeans and yet did not build and develop in a way to resist them, except if I'm remembering Ethiopia but they suffered later thanks to Italy and chemical weapons...

Put it in a more historical perspective, when the Europeans began work on their empire's, there were only 4 continents where there was mass capitulation and/or submission:

North and South America, Oceania and Africa

The middle east managed to largely hold out, Asia only really suffered thanks to the technological superiority of the Europeans and even then a lot of areas remained under local rule while places like idea only were taken thanks to different people siding with the Europeans.

Africa had centuries of contact with both the Arabs and Europeans and yet did not build and develop in a way to resist them, except if I'm remembering Ethiopia but they suffered later thanks to Italy and chemical weapons...