> There are certain similarities in culture across the sub Saharan countries though. Dunno if you've been there?

Yes, I've been there and this your assertion is simply not true, unless by "similarities in culture" you mean they are all human. Heck, there's ridiculous variety of culture in the same country - South Africa has 11 official languages, if we are to take language as a proxy for culture.

I've been there as well, and to deny that Sub-Saharian African governments are rife with corruption is simply dishonest on your part.

I did not make that argument - I was talking debunking the "shared culture" idea and rejecting the lack of nuance. Corruption is not cultural - east and west Berlin had different levels of corruption due to something other than culture.

If you think all sub-Saharan African governments have the same levels of corruption, you're plain wrong. As an illustration: (in no particular order) Nigeria, Botswana, Kenya, Rwanda, Zimbabwe have corruption levels that range from "it's expected in every official interaction" to "you (civilian) will wind up in jail if you bring up the idea of a bribe". So there's nothing that's inherently African or cultural about it.

Here's corruption index map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Transpar...