How cold war affected Africa development?

Both the Communist bloc and the Western nations tried to tried to extend their influence to Africa. The result mostly was that these countries were inundated with 'development' money in return for their support for either the East or the West.

The West mostly won out in Africa, but pouring trillions of dollars in often little-developed economies and mostly rural societies did not lead to major development. Much more, it lead to large-scale corruption and self-enrichment by those countries' elites, to clientelism, spending on armies and weaponry and to a massive growth of people employed by the Governments - and as a consequence, to an enormous bureaucracy that slowed down economic growth rather than stimulating it.

Despite having gotten much more in aid money than ever was taken out of Africa in 70 years of colonialism, the East/West race to 'buy' African countries' loyalty ended with many of them being now worse off than they were in the Sixties.