Matthew Owuma

How We Underdeveloped Africa Matthew Owuma

Obsessed with Africa's inability to develop in all ramifications, obsessed with Africa's huge poverty, youth unemployment and humongous international financial debt, despite the unimaginably huge reserve of natural wealth and annual developmental aids the continent receives, one is therefore, keen to know how, what and who is responsible for the continent's present state of underdevelopment, given earlier stated instances. Africa being the wealthiest continent in the world should by every standard attain a level of development far higher than her present level, prompting countless publications and articles into pointing accusing fingers towards Europe and other developed nations (as regards to slave trade and colonialism). Can these accusations be relevant in this present day and time, despite several new players taking turns in under-developing Africa? These and many more is what "How We Underdeveloped Africa" seeks to answer.