Why did Africa become the site of so many proxy wars during the post-war era?

A proxy war or proxy warfare is a war that outcomes when contradicting powers utilize outsiders as substitutes for battling each other specifically. While powers have now and then utilized governments as intermediaries, savage non-state performers, and soldiers of fortune; other outsiders are all the more regularly utilized. It is trusted that these gatherings can strike an adversary without prompting full-scale war.