num_pages: 412
description: This book tells the story of the sorry state of Africa. Although it acknowledges how Europe especially initiated and has surreptitiously maintained the ongoing predation on and the impoverishment of Africa its major attention is on Africa's self-betrayal how Africa's political leaders and elites have contributed in the present predicament of Africa. Beginning from the dishonourably sadistic roles some of the kings chiefs and elites of Africa played during the slave trade era to the predatory systems of governance many of their political leaders adopted after decolonisation and have maintained to date this book x-rays the internal factors that are also responsible for the poverty of Africa. The author argues passionately consequently that only Africa can help Africa not foreign aid or any external intervention. He stresses that unless the cannibalistic system of governance in many African states are reformed and systems that can stimulate and sustain economic growth adopted the disappearance of Africa is imminent.
language: English
title: The Bleeding Continent: How Africa Became Impoverished and Why It Remains Poor
publisher: Xlibris