Will African countries be developed?

[Charles-Tim]

Africa, a continent to billion of people, having many agricultural and mineral resources, it is home to many tourist centers. Africa is located in region not subjected to many natural diseasters like earth quake and hurricane. Africa so blessed to be a continent that can run on its own with the natural resources they have.


https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2016/10/mapping-africa-natural-resources-161020075811145.html

Despite all natural resources embedded in Africa, they are always lacking and behind other continents. Most if not all the countries in Africa are regarded as third world country (poor nations). Why are Africa countries remaining underdeveloped or developing when they have what they can use to grow and develop.

In Africa, getting good education is not easy, rich people and the so called politicians are getting quality education for their children abroad, if they are ill, they travel oversea for treatment, good example are the governors and presidents in Africa including their relative, they make the Africa hospitals not suitable and good enough for medical teatments, that is why many Africa medical practitioners are travelling oversea and never coming back too. Corruption, nepotism and thinking of their families but not multitudes has devastated Africa into a poor standard of living nations. After all these, Africa countries lack employment while most that are employed are underemployed, making them to be poor countries truly. There have always been persistent increases in inflation, this makes me conclude African leaders are not capable to making their countries to be developed.

What makes me more sad about all these is that Africa countries can not make use of what they have properly (natural resources), and now the world has moved more towards technology, how will Africa properly handle what they are lacking. Technology wise, Africans are nothing in the world for now.

I am just thinking if all these can change, I wish many Africa countries to be developed. What can possibly lead to Africa countries getting advanced so the quality of living in the continent will improve?

[audaciousbeing]

In Africa, getting good education is not easy, rich people and the so called politicians are getting quality education for their children abroad, if they are ill, they travel oversea for treatment, good example are the governors and presidents in Africa including their relative, they make the Africa hospitals not suitable and good enough for medical treatments, that is why many Africa medical practitioners are travelling oversea and never coming back too. Corruption, nepotism and thinking of their families but not multitudes has devastated Africa into a poor standard of living nations. After all these, Africa countries lack employment while most that are employed are underemployed, making them to be poor countries truly. There have always been persistent increases in inflation, this makes me conclude African leaders are not capable to make their countries to be developed.

What makes me more sad about all these is that Africa countries can not make use of what they have properly (natural resources), and now the world has moved more towards technology, how will Africa handle properly what they are lacking. Technology wise, Africans are nothing in the world for now.

I am just thinking if all these can change, I wish many Africa countries to be developed. What can possibly lead to Africa countries getting advanced so the quality of living in the continent will improve?

The development of Africa is a long road down and its not something that can be fixed or explained by just one factor. In light of that, there is absolute need to mention that countries that started the path of development less than a century ago cannot expected to be at the pace of those that started about few centuries back.

Africans can continue to blame colonization on their woes but colonialism is an excuse that have become vague in recent times because even the early African countries to break away from colonization are still grappling with the bane of development.

When African countries are serious about getting it right, the first is their set of leaders after which they should focus on putting the right structures in place whether in the public or private sector. Until then, their development is would be a longer walk to freedom.

[Upgrade00]

Regardless of the number of resources available, if not managed properly, the region would remain underdeveloped. Corruption and mismanagement are the major barriers in Africa.
Using Nigeria as a microcosm of the continent, the nation discovered crude oil almost a century ago, becoming the major natural resource. This discovery was expected to bring major growth and industralisation which was not the case;
• The region which was the major source of oil still remained developed and even suffered from regular oil spills, depleting the environment and harming the people, this led to conflicts further slowing development.
• Agriculture was the major source of revenue before oil, but was neglected after leading to a depletion of the sector. With the over dependency on oil there was no support for the economy as the oil sector failed.

I am just thinking if all these can change, I wish many Africa countries to be developed. What can possibly lead to Africa countries getting advanced so the quality of living in the continent will improve?

The system has to be changed. Africans countries like Rwanda with a credible government has been developing. Long periods of credible leadership in various sensitive sectors would be necessary for the development of the economy.

[plvbob0070]

We can say that Africa is blessed with natural resources, but these resources won't work on their own to improve African countries. For me, one of the primary reason is corruption. It's already given that they have resources that can be their asset but because of mismanagement and corruption of some people, the people can't benefit from it. With corruption, there is a lack of education, health care system, and development because they don't prioritize it. Also, wars, terrorism, and other conflicts are visible in African countries that are also one of the factors.

So I guess in order to slowly fix the problems, they need to have good and efficient authorities to lead them.

[Wexnident]

Corruption is way too prevalent in Africa. It's like the saying A dog doesn't know the true value of a jewel even when he picks it up (or something similar to that). They don't understand how valuable Africa is, and how they could've easily escaped from their current problems right now if only their Government knew how to manage their country properly. Factors such as colonialism doesn't really help them from developing much as well.

First move of theirs should probably cleansing their government as well as stopping the blame of their economy regressing because of colonialism. After that, as long as someone responsible is under control, then their problems with regards to infrastructure and trading should easily resolve itself with time, which is one of their main problems right now when you exclude corruption.

[gentlemand]

Regardless of the number of resources available, if not managed properly, the region would remain underdeveloped. Corruption and mismanagement are the major barriers in Africa.

I think that's the main one. Africa went straight from traditional ways of life to foreign plunder with nothing in the middle. The majority of the world is corrupt but many places also managed to develop at a reasonable pace to offset some of the misery it creates.

There's enough progress now in Africa for the corrupt to get fat on it and once they're ensconced they're dug in forever.

[Savemore]

We can say that Africa is blessed with natural resources, but these resources won't work on their own to improve African countries. For me, one of the primary reason is corruption. It's already given that they have resources that can be their asset but because of mismanagement and corruption of some people, the people can't benefit from it. With corruption, there is a lack of education, health care system, and development because they don't prioritize it. Also, wars, terrorism, and other conflicts are visible in African countries that are also one of the factors.

So I guess in order to slowly fix the problems, they need to have good and efficient authorities to lead them.

When people talking about Africa, people thought that it is a continent where the poverty rate is so high but not all of African countries are like this because some of them have good economy growth in these past years but I cannot deny the fact that there are some countries in Africa where the corruption is so massive where a lot of people do not get the right treatment that their government should give to them.

They have a broken system but it doesn't mean that they will be forever to experience that, through cooperation and through voting the right candidates in there government; for sure they can fix the problem and able to develop their counties as well as lessen the poverty rate.

[carlisle1]

Corruption is way too prevalent in Africa. It's like the saying A dog doesn't know the true value of a jewel even when he picks it up (or something similar to that). They don't understand how valuable Africa is, and how they could've easily escaped from their current problems right now if only their Government knew how to manage their country properly. Factors such as colonialism doesn't really help them from developing much as well.

Not just in Africa but most of those third world countries have this problem a well, corrupt leaders are the very reasons why such rich in natural minerals countries still not progressing,. If they only look for the country as a whole and not just aiming to gain coming from the power that they've got being voted
by people who are hoping that changes will come and saves them.

First move of theirs should probably cleansing their government as well as stopping the blame of their economy regressing because of colonialism. After that, as long as someone responsible is under control, then their problems with regards to infrastructure and trading should easily resolve itself with time, which is one of their main problems right now when you exclude corruption.

If those political leaders who manage to have proper educations will use it as a serving tools to improve the nations, they'll have a good chance to improve, it's all about how they'll handle the government, economy will grow once the government officials that surround this land will think for the best of everyone and not just for someone.

[mu_enrico]

African countries need order (proper government and political stability) before we talk about economic development, just like the middle east. As long as militias and terrorists are rampaging across countries, people cannot use their maximum potential to work.

https://www.travelinglifestyle.net/most-dangerous-countries-africa/

This situation is far more complicated than a mere economic problem. Politics and conflict resolution aren't my area of study, so with my limited knowledge, I think they need a strong military leader with an authoritarian regime to bring stability, then move to a democratically elected government. Perhaps there will be lots of death before it happens.

[Kakmakr]

You should note a few things, before you make bold statements like that :

Did you know Africa had it's own centralized digital currency, before Bitcoin was developed? It is called M-Pesa and has over 37 million active customers and almost 400,000 active agents operating across 7 countries: the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique and Tanzania. Source : https://www.vodafone.com/what-we-do/services/m-pesa  ( Established on 6th March 2007 by Vodafone's Kenyan associate, Safaricom )

Did you know Elon Musk came from Africa? Also, Elon Musk is the 5th-wealthiest person in the world, according to Forbes. Elon Musk became the fifth-richest person in the world on Monday, according to Forbes. His net worth is valued at over $74 billion. Source : https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-fifth-wealthiest-person-world-forbes-list-net-worth-2020-7 

Do you know, Mark Shuttleworth?  - Net worth: $ 1 billion (2017) He was involved with digital certificates and Internet security and sold his company called, Thawte to the well known VeriSign. He also funded the development of Ubuntu, a Linux distribution based on Debian, where he was a developer.

Mark Shuttleworth gained worldwide fame on 25 April 2002, as the second self-funded space tourist and the first-ever South African in space.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth

Africa does have a lot of resources, but they are being tapped by first world countries for those resources and then those very same resources are then processed and refined and sold back to them for a huge profit. (The Chinese are one of the biggest culprits, because they keep the skills and manufacturing plants in China and they know how to capitalize on the government corruption in Africa.) 

[slashz9]

I think it would be difficult if the residents within the country themselves don't help in the development role of their own people, let's say rich people are only busy thinking about themselves if they help develop or open new businesses maybe the population in Africa will be more advanced in a few decades because their natural resources are very sufficient, it's just that human resources are not sufficient to manage them, not only in Africa, but almost all over the world, this happens, it's just that in Africa it is probably the worst.

[rodskee]

I think it would be difficult if the residents within the country themselves don't help in the development role of their own people,

They can't help if the government who are controlling the economy are corrupt, most people
are starving due to corruptions.
People can help if leaders are good, if they have concrete plans to develop the country, and
if they using the budget in the places.

let's say rich people are only busy thinking about themselves if they help develop or open new businesses maybe the population in Africa will be more advanced in a few decades because their natural resources are very sufficient,

They have natural resources and the whole world knew that, but without good plans and good
guidance it will be all wasted.

it's just that human resources are not sufficient to manage them, not only in Africa, but almost all over the world, this happens, it's just that in Africa it is probably the worst.

Good Samaritan that will lead them to make the country more better than the current situation
they in need of people who will really care for them.
Not just for the wealth but for the continuous progress and let along to stand on their own using
their own natural resources.

[Leviathan.007]

For any nation and any country in all over the world, the rulers will chose and decide if they can get developed or not, by the actions and decisions, but the rulers are chosen between the people, so they is to educate and develop the normal people. If you look at the history of the most successful and developed countries, you will see the key was always to have the educated and loyal people, because these people will soon become a president/leader and make decisions for their counties, here the decisions are depending the their past and how they rise. For the African countries, most of they are actually laying on natural resource treasures if the leaders manage the resources they can be developed and rich countries. In the other hand, in my own idea, traditions and religions are damaging the development progress.

[so98nn]

One thing I’m pretty sure about African is that, they surely have good education but it’s always from abroad. When I was back in England, I had like 50% of students around me who were from Africa continent.

I mean it’s a small example but they do have capabilities of scholarships and cracking IELTS exam. Looking at it the number might be higher in USA since that’s most liked destination for study.

If they start bringing this knowledge back in Africa then things could change around there.

Everything takes time, and surely Africa will be in the list.

[AniviaBtc]

We all know that many people say that people in Africa are having a hard time because most of their areas are rural areas.

They don't really adapt modernization and advancement of technology and still they are experiencing poverty.

But one of the things that i'm amazed with them is that I've read some article that they already have a Bitcoin ATM that some other countries don't have. Their approach towards cryptocurrency are really good and with that, I can see that they have a lot of potential to developed in terms of technology and economy because they have a lot of agricultural resources and commodities to utilize.

[jrrsparkles]

In that continent where most of the leaders are highly corrupted and that is the primary reason why people are not getting their basic needs even though the country is rich enough with all the natural resources.There are many African celebrities are trying to save their people from the poor but they can only do some extent and this is on the hand of their citizens to choose the right leaders.

[Sanugarid]

We can all agree that Africa is one of a kind place in the planet, they got the most precious natural resources in the world but despite of that nature abundance they are suffering from military dictatorships, corruption and civil war making a huge hindrance of their growth as a nation. The poverty in Africa is way more deep than any country has, the poverty they are experiencing right now is still coming from the past, the long term impacts of genocide, slavery, and war. It is good to see that countries in Africa like Nigeria starts developing, I hope we'll see a lot more of underdeveloped countries coming from this continent to excel especially on technology coz they already got access on it.

[AjithBtc]

The main reason for the African Countries termed to be third world countries were due to the evading done by the Western world. This started with the resources, Africa has got rich natural resources than any other countries in the world. Any country can be made to be poor, if the resources were evaded.

I've watched documentaries in which lots and lots of rich Africans were seen. How they make money is out of the natural resources. Political people are highly corrupt and the administration lacks in proper management which is the initial cause for allowing Western world have control over their natural resources making the Western world grow.

[davis196]

African countries can become developed if several requirements are met:
1.Birth control policies so the birth ratio can be lowered.Having way too many kids is what keeps many families poor.
2.More investments in the educational systems.
3.More government control over the natural resources of Africa.
4.Political stability and functioning democracy.
5.Acquiring more foreign capitals via tax benefits.
As long as those requirements are met,the African countries will have a bright future.Unfortunately,this isn't the case.

[electronicash]

my country isn't very different from Africa's situation. even before the start of our country, its already messy.  the people who decides for the country back then are also manipulated by the nations who gave us independence. up to today those nations are still manipulating African countries, they even own huge properties there. Politicians are also corrupt and i guess they'd have to seize the opportunity because is their time. someone else will seize their opportunity after them.

you're country will not progress unless youre country allow the Chinese to make business there and build the railroads for the new silkroad.