Will African countries be developed?

[davinchi]

Africa is much more developed in terms of natural resources but they are in the poorest position due to exploitation in various aspects africa has abundant mineral resources many countries in the world including china are improving africa through the proper use of mineral resources. The main reason for the failure of africa is that he is suffering from ill health and lags far behind in terms of education human resource rates need to be increased to improve africa

All these issues.. such as lack of healthcare and education, shortage of food, lack of proper infrastructure.etc arises from a basic factor. That basic factor is the uncontrolled population explosion, which makes it very difficult for the governments to provide education and healthcare to everyone. On top of that, the per capita availability of agricultural land is declining, due to desertification and other factors.

But the population in the African countries is not out of control by any means and to control the population it is the government who has to take actions actually like China made a few rules if my knowledge serves me right they have a policy if you have more than a single child you won't get a job from the government and so on which is a good way to stop the reproduction rate.

I believe the lack of education is a big factor in the current poor situation of the African countries because they had resources and should be a rich nation but due to lack of tourism, education and vision they are suffering with almost starvation now.

[ololajulo]

Leadership and system of Government in Africa will always be the problem to growth. A system of government that can check any leader with corruption aim and reduce leader access to Government money, politics should recieve very low funding to attract administrators and technocrats in office. Most of the developed countries do not have 10% of what they have in Africa and they use 90% of those things in Africa at a cheaper price. Who do they pay for those things? and they deny the citizens. The system is just bad

[proTECH77]

African have all it takes to be develop but the bad leaders in the countries which are just fighting for their self and family alone not care about the future of African.  African leaders never make their election free and fair in some countries which they always preach during their campaign that the election will be free and fair in the country which is causing African not to be develop compare to other continent in the world.
I think  with the strategies on ground which the leaders of
 African has accepted to join hands together to make African be the best in the areas of Education, religion, technologies, policies, and business etc. With the strategies which the African has agreed to carry out will make African the most developed country in the world.

Good blessed African with natural resources which few people are using them to enrich their self.

[whyrqa]

Leadership and system of Government in Africa will always be the problem to growth. A system of government that can check any leader with corruption aim and reduce leader access to Government money, politics should recieve very low funding to attract administrators and technocrats in office. Most of the developed countries do not have 10% of what they have in Africa and they use 90% of those things in Africa at a cheaper price. Who do they pay for those things? and they deny the citizens. The system is just bad

The biggest problem in African countries is corruption. If at least the legal system of power, including the judicial branch of power, works at least 50% of its capabilities, then the government will have no choice but to make direct changes in the economic and political system of government. In addition, every resident of the country should understand that not only his future, the future of his children, but also the future of the whole country depends on his fox choice. It is people who give power to those people who then lead the country.

[posi]

Africa is much more developed in terms of natural resources but they are in the poorest position due to exploitation in various aspects africa has abundant mineral resources many countries in the world including china are improving africa through the proper use of mineral resources. The main reason for the failure of africa is that he is suffering from ill health and lags far behind in terms of education human resource rates need to be increased to improve africa

All these issues.. such as lack of healthcare and education, shortage of food, lack of proper infrastructure.etc arises from a basic factor. That basic factor is the uncontrolled population explosion, which makes it very difficult for the governments to provide education and healthcare to everyone. On top of that, the per capita availability of agricultural land is declining, due to desertification and other factors.

95% of all people over the world know how richly blessing Africa is in terms of mineral resources  but to honest with you guys, the problem of Africa not been developed is not over population, lack of education, good healthcare but the major problem of African are bad government and godfathers which only want to enrich their pockets rather than developing the country. Mind you, everything that is needed to developed African countries is already written down in the country chart planning ever since their colonization.

I can assure you guys that if the African governments really want to developdevelopountry in a year they can but the bad seeds in the political scheme need to be removed.

[iamsheikhadil]

I believe the most important cause for this is corrupt politicians. People of Africa have to mass protest against such system and government. Today we have the internet, one can get quality education even online. Masses of Africa should use internet as a tool to get education, know about the world and what they are lacking, protest and start a movement so that they can get their rights which are snatched away from them by the greedy politicians. It really hurts to see them getting oppressed!

[NavI_027]

I look on the map presented and it's prety impressive. African continent is undoubtedly rich of mineral resources. If their government focus on harnessing such natural resources then I think they would be more developed than Middle East. But unfortunately, it's not.

Aside from the corrupt officials, another factor to be consider why they are having a slow progress is because of the climate and topography. It's really hard to improve the agriculture on such places that's why most of them are experiencing famine. Hunger  leads to low quality of health and death sooner .

[Gozie51]

it's just that in Africa it is probably the worst.

Worst if you say so and that is because of bad leadership that is a result of corruption and bad policy implication. But looking down very well, it is not only Africa but third world but Africa is in spotlight because of its large size and the people of Africa are in active participation in global affairs.

[Vishnu.Reang]

But the population in the African countries is not out of control by any means and to control the population it is the government who has to take actions actually like China made a few rules if my knowledge serves me right they have a policy if you have more than a single child you won't get a job from the government and so on which is a good way to stop the reproduction rate.

I believe the lack of education is a big factor in the current poor situation of the African countries because they had resources and should be a rich nation but due to lack of tourism, education and vision they are suffering with almost starvation now.

Look at this table:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependencies_by_total_fertility_rate

Many of the African nations are having fertility rates above 5 children per women. And you still believe that the population is not out of control? Take the case of Nigeria. Back in 1950, they had a population of 38 million. The current figure is 206 million. And by the end of this century, the population is projected to hit 800 million. Already there is a lot of armed conflict for the control of pastures and farmland. The increase in population is going to make this worse.

[BITCOIN4X]

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The increase in population is going to make this worse.

The very rapid population growth from year to year in a country will cause various problem, especially in the welfare sector. The more the population, the narrower the place to work so that unemployment will increase. But not always a country with a large population cant rise up and make its people prosperous. If the government succeed in attracting outside investor to invest, it will have a positive impact so that unemployed human resources can be utilized.

Regarding the OP post, the lack of human resources to maximize the yield of natural resources in African countries is what makes it difficult for them to become developed countries. The same thing happened in my country, many natural resources that cant be taken alone and always need other countries and their workers. We only get a few percent of the yield and don't involve much local workers are some of the things that cost us.

[matchi2011]

it's just that in Africa it is probably the worst.

Worst if you say so and that is because of bad leadership that is a result of corruption and bad policy implication. But looking down very well, it is not only Africa but third world but Africa is in spotlight because of its large size and the people of Africa are in active participation in global affairs.

Also because it's been a long decades and still same policy and same politics that keep Africa way far from every third world countries. There's no real changes between leaders.

Africa needs people who can lead them to bring modernizations and good educations, concern leaders that will bring them to challenged poverties and not just after wealth.

[Mauser]

it's just that in Africa it is probably the worst.

Worst if you say so and that is because of bad leadership that is a result of corruption and bad policy implication. But looking down very well, it is not only Africa but third world but Africa is in spotlight because of its large size and the people of Africa are in active participation in global affairs.

Also because it's been a long decades and still same policy and same politics that keep Africa way far from every third world countries. There's no real changes between leaders.

Africa needs people who can lead them to bring modernizations and good educations, concern leaders that will bring them to challenged poverties and not just after wealth.

I agree with you, the best thing for Africa would be to grow from within. If local education would be higher it would much easier for countries to grow out of poverty. Unfortunately most humans (all around the world, not only in Africa) think about themselfs first, and their families and friends second and countries usually last. The high level of corruption in Africa make it so hard for companies to grow competitive on a global scale. I think getting rid of corruption with implementing new business reforms should be the way to go for Africa to get developed. The Western and Asian countries need to help here, but with the corona pandemic still ongoing it's very hard to get more funding for African infrastructure projects.

[finaleshot2016]

it's just that in Africa it is probably the worst.

Worst if you say so and that is because of bad leadership that is a result of corruption and bad policy implication. But looking down very well, it is not only Africa but third world but Africa is in spotlight because of its large size and the people of Africa are in active participation in global affairs.

Also because it's been a long decades and still same policy and same politics that keep Africa way far from every third world countries. There's no real changes between leaders.

Africa needs people who can lead them to bring modernizations and good educations, concern leaders that will bring them to challenged poverties and not just after wealth.

Agree, it always depends on the government who handles the country so if they fail, then the country itself will also fail. Once corruption started in a country, it's hard to recover because of debts so I can't blame the current and future leaders because of course, they can't stand the past corruption that happens and expects other debts this pandemic.

If nothing changes in the currency country then it's obvious that it will remain the same.

[gatti]

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?

With the nature gift,africa was surrounded with natural resources.But the unaccepted fact is,it was used by multi national corporation companies.Since government is not afford to extract that resources,it lend to the other people.But in fully analysis ,I had come to know.It was a good one for the country.Africa government should involve to get resources for them.

[claire_lovely]

I think there's great hope for the continent of Africa and it is only a matter of time before they experience a more rapid pace of development. There are already huge construction projects going on all around, and cryptocurrency is going to play a new role in making financial services accessible to the unbanked.

IOHK is already doing amazing things there:
https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2018/05/29/vision-for-blockchain-in-africa-is-becoming-a-reality/

[Vishnu.Reang]

The very rapid population growth from year to year in a country will cause various problem, especially in the welfare sector. The more the population, the narrower the place to work so that unemployment will increase. But not always a country with a large population cant rise up and make its people prosperous. If the government succeed in attracting outside investor to invest, it will have a positive impact so that unemployed human resources can be utilized.

Regarding the OP post, the lack of human resources to maximize the yield of natural resources in African countries is what makes it difficult for them to become developed countries. The same thing happened in my country, many natural resources that cant be taken alone and always need other countries and their workers. We only get a few percent of the yield and don't involve much local workers are some of the things that cost us.

Lack of human resource is because of heavy emigration of educated people to Western nations. Countries such as Nigeria and Kenya have limited number of doctors and engineers, as they don't have enough medical schools and universities to produce them. But even these few educated and skilled people emigrate to countries such as United States and United Kingdom, as soon as they get an opportunity. Even those who want to stay are driven abroad, due to corruption, political interference and low wages.

[jacafbiz]

The problem in Africa is corruption, the money that is borrowed for human development most of the time is stolen. Another thing that I see with Africa is the resource curse, indeed the continent is bless but if the human capital is poor their is no way they can use the resources to their benefit, just look at Nigeria for example, the have oil and even one of the top producing oil country but still export petroleum products like Petrol, Kerosine, Lubricant oil etc and these can also be said of Cocoa, Cotton, Tin and other minerals. The need to spend on education and provide enabling environment for businesses to strive then Africa will be on the road to success

[skarais]

In response to the OP question, I believe it is very likely that these countries will become developing countries in the future because of the wealth of natural resources they have. But I don't think they will be developed countries in the next 1-2 decade.

Very minimal human resources is the biggest weakness they have as a natural resource producing country and in the end they will become a country that only receives a percentage of what mining companies pay. This is also the reason why they will not become a developed country.

[CASTIEL05]

In response to the OP question, I believe it is very likely that these countries will become developing countries in the future because of the wealth of natural resources they have. But I don't think they will be developed countries in the next 1-2 decade.

Very minimal human resources is the biggest weakness they have as a natural resource producing country and in the end they will become a country that only receives a percentage of what mining companies pay. This is also the reason why they will not become a developed country.

When it comes to the natural resources, Africa is highly rich. However, the technology and human resources of Africa is not yet advance compared to other continents in the world. In addition, corruption in the side of the government is still occurring in every part of the continent. I have friends who work in South Africa and Madagascar. They have told how life is much worse for the poor in these countries. But the bottomline of this is that, they can be developed or they have the potential to grow in the next years. I believe that Africa will soon awake because of its hidden resources.

[arwin100]

In response to the OP question, I believe it is very likely that these countries will become developing countries in the future because of the wealth of natural resources they have. But I don't think they will be developed countries in the next 1-2 decade.

Very minimal human resources is the biggest weakness they have as a natural resource producing country and in the end they will become a country that only receives a percentage of what mining companies pay. This is also the reason why they will not become a developed country.

When it comes to the natural resources, Africa is highly rich. However, the technology and human resources of Africa is not yet advance compared to other continents in the world. In addition, corruption in the side of the government is still occurring in every part of the continent. I have friends who work in South Africa and Madagascar. They have told how life is much worse for the poor in these countries. But the bottomline of this is that, they can be developed or they have the potential to grow in the next years. I believe that Africa will soon awake because of its hidden resources.

The corruption what made the life of citizens worse the existing politicians there didn't bother to upgrade things to make their people educated or to know more about the latest technology, maybe if they will put a good person on the higher office which aims for betterment of his country for sure Africa will get a high potential to be developed and compete with other rich countries.