Is There a Predictive Factor of Conflict in Africa?

In africa, there's a very weak relationship. A lot of democracies in sub saheran africa revert to autocracy quite quickly. So it's a kind of unstable situation in terms of which countries are democratic. And there's no strong, smoking gun correlation with conflict. Ok, how about try's colonial history? There's been tons of research in economics suggesting that the more extractive in ruthless the colonial times, the worst things are to day. Is that predictive of more arm conflict? No, no, strong relations ha, ha. We could talk about other possible factors, maybe education levels, or beig an alli of the us. But why don't you tell