How We Underdeveloped Africa: Unmasking The True Obstacles to Africa's Development in Recent Years

Nothing can be truer than the fact that Africa has suffered a great deal of injustice in many ways. From the painful experience of slavery to colonization and now neo-colonization, all geared towards bringing Africa to its knees. With all these stated pieces of evidence, it is easy to toll the thoughts of Walter Rodney to blame Europe and America for Africa's present misery.

The facts stated above are surly enough to blame Europe and America but the questions many fail to ask are; why hasn't Africa gone past its present state of development even with Africans being in charge of affairs for over fifty years? Why have Africa's poverty and the unemployment rate continued to increase exponentially even as the continent poses tremendous wealth in human capital and resources? Why do African leaders continue to run to foreign powers to beg for loans and aid when there is more than enough to be exploited within the continent? Why have African leaders failed to develop their health sector for over fifty years but always run to developed countries to spend scarce resources on their health leaving the rest of the populace the suffer rot of the sector?

Some other questions which seem to produce no reasonable answer are; why do Africans risk their lives crossing the Sahara desert and the Mediterranean Sea daily in a bid to escape poverty and unemployment? Why would a continent with a long bitter history of slavery and colonialism engage itself in brutal civil wars and violent conflicts, further tearing down its almost non-existent social, political, and economic fabric and infrastructure rather than teaming up to build it?

This goes a long way to prove that Africa's state of underdevelopment goes far beyond the activities of Europe and America during the slave trade, colonization, or neo-colonization. These among many other questions are the basis for this book sheds light on the real culprits of Africa's underdevelopment in recent years.