Africa’s Underdevelopment: Does Africa Need Western Prescriptions?

Abstract

The African continent is the biggest continent on earth endowed with immense natural and human resources .Africa has the youngest population on earth. It is also endowed with great cultural, ecological and economic diversity but paradoxically it remains the poorest continent on earth. The United Nations classifies Africa as the most least developed.

Africa is bleeding from military dictatorships, corruption, civil unrest and war, underdevelopment, and deep poverty. Most of the strategies and prescriptions by the western governments and their institutions have failed to yield results.

Whilst there is an agreement that slavery, colonialism, and external interference underdeveloped Africa, there are other countries like Singapore which was able to turn around their socio-economic fortunes. We also have the United Arab Emirates which was formed after 1971, they have risen to be global superpowers. The United Arab Emirates has a GDP per capita which is higher than Nigeria which is Africa’s biggest economy, both these countries’ economies are based on natural gas and oil.

Arabs and Europeans have proven to be our enemies as African people for more than 1500 years. Arabs have colonised , enslaved and killed many of our people in North Africa and up to today they are still killing us in Sudan, Mauritania, Libya, Niger, Tunisia, Algeria yet the Arab world and so-called Arab nationalists and revolutionaries are quite about this black genocide and the black holocaust. The Arabs and Europeans directly or indirectly benefit from our destruction economically, socially and politically. Black people have no friends outside our race. All other nations advance and preserve their own interests by any means necessary.