Five Major Reasons Africa is Poor: A Deep Introspection on the Perpetuating Factors and what we can do to Change Them

Written by Rev Walter Mwambazi

Narrated by Chilu Lemba

Africa is one of the oldest continents but hasn’t it struck you as absolutely odd how a continent endowed with such wealth in terms of both ground resource as well as human resource, unbelievably great weather and wonderful soil can have such unbelievably high levels of poverty? It is nothing short of preposterous.

What makes this worse for is the fact that 58 years later, Africa still grapples with so much challenges that make you wonder why it has taken us so long as a people to be emancipated in every way.

In 1963, on 1st May, leaders from all across free and colonized Africa gathered in Addis Ababa with a dream of seeing the African continent become one giant regional power. It has not happened yet – but however that does not take away the yearning every son and daughter of the soil has to see Pan Africanism materialize.

The purpose for this narrative by the author in this particular book is to add his voice and help ignite any smoldering rubble of broken dreams and disenchantment back to a blazing flame.

It is Mwambazi’s opinion that Africa has everything it needs to become the economic engine of the entire world and can and will surpass both the West and the East should its citizens awaken to their true potential.

Now here is the enigma, AFRICA DOESN’T NEED THE REST OF THE WORLD TO SURVIVE BUT THE WORLD NEEDS AFRICA TO SURVIVE. I believe the Second African Renaissance is upon us, but it will take A COLLECTIVE AWAKENING OF THE GIANT’S INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS – ITS PEOPLE!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Splendid Works
• Release date: Dec 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822656970

Reviews for Five Major Reasons Africa is Poor

[Christian Basar · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

As a Westerner who lived in southern Africa for almost a year, I thought this was a fantastic book. It is well-written and organized, with good explanations of and support for his ideas. I do have some criticisms in that many citations and definitions come from Wikipedia. However, I can cut it some slack since this is not an academic book. I also take some issue with the author's distinction of "religion vs. spirituality," in which he implies that religion is very bad, while spirituality is good. Though I agree that corrupted and false religion is bad and that pure hearts are good, I also believe that religion and spirituality are not mutually exclusive. Having said that, the author also cautions people against corrupted religion, religious frauds, and advises them to seek true faith, which is something I wholeheartedly agree with.