I don't care if I'm gonna get down voted but Codeforces Servers are having some weird IP-Address based Racism ! Lately a lot of African Users are experiencing laggy codeforces(most of time laggy sometimes u can't even access the website) and it seems like we're getting redirected to some Bad/Slow server but suddenly this behavior vanishes once u use a European proxy or VPN ! Mike please fix this , we're all born equal and have the right to do Competitive Programming!
I work at a MnC and trust me brother, nobody wants to mess with production servers for racism purposes.
Maybe the network isn't so good in some places in Africa. Some of the users may be racist, but definitely not on Africa.
I'm sure it's not the network ! It's smooth with every website except codeforces
Sorry. Maybe I'm wrong.