It is also crisis of trust. Western medical companies, Bill Gates foundations etc do not have best reputation in Africa. There were all sorts of experiments done on people, some medications were not as effective as promised... And there is a heavy political and cultural interference, that is just not acceptable in Africa!
> I started using two decades ago...use old school style C on microcontrollers regularly!
Those two statements do not necessary contradict each other. C evolves and skills required on large programs are vastly different from microcontrollers.
Look from other side of an open-source developer and maintainer. You have to spend several hours polishing unfinished Pull Request, only to give other person credit as a "commiter". If you throw away the PR, and instead spend 10 minutes writing it yourself, you "stole" the credit.
Many people do Pull Requests, only to pad their CV! Drama like this is why I do not accept any patches.