Off the top of my head the impact of Fundamental Biblical Evangelical Christianity has been the most significant to the improvement of life in formerly pagan Africa than any other factor. The African nations or cultures within nations influenced the most by Biblical evangelical Christianity have been the most free, the most prosperous and the most blessed nations/cultures on the continent of Africa.
Mmmm hmmm.
Improvements couldn't possibly be due to education, food supplies, or medicine. no, they
must be due to the blessings of your "god."
I will grant you that much of the charity work done in Africa is done by Christians in general, and Christian missions in particular.
Of course, the AIDS epidemic in Africa has been drastically worsened by "abstinence-only" education and claims for instance that condoms somehow
cause HIV and AIDS, and these teachings are religious in nature with no basis in fact.
I'd also like to point out that Zimbabwe, a very Christian nation, is a shithole thanks to its president Mugabe. Their superstitions recently allowed them to be hoodwinked by a scam artist into believing that
diesel fuel could come from a magic rock when struck with a stick, exactly as Moses did with water in the OT. Turns out a woman had found a misplaced tank of diesel and run a hose, and used an accomplice to turn on the diesel - but Mugabe and his goons bought it after observing the flowing fuel, and paid her a hefty sum of money before the scam was uncovered.
Superstitions are
bad when they conflict with objective fact, Buzsaw, bar none.
When you know you're going to wake up in three days, dying is not a sacrifice. It's a
painful inconvenience.