Topic: Will African countries be developed? (Read 1654 times)

China's investment in Africa is part of their road and belt initiative which is a central tenet in their foreign policy. They are essentially trying to develop international trade with China at the center by creating the infrastructure in less developed countries and orienting their trading disposition to Beijing. It is an attempt to become an economic super power like the United States.  Unfortunately under Trump, what was a terrible hand to begin with has deteriorated so much more over the past 4 years. The US has never been weaker on the world stage in the post-WWII era.

Yeah, education plays an important role in choosing leaders too actually because it is easy to fool a mob of uneducated people while an educated person will always give vote to leader who has vision rather than false promises.

Africa has such a good nature resources core and despite that they have such dire times that people are dying of hunger that simply shows lack of concern from the leaders for their countrymen and having poor vision. If only they started to utilize their natural resources and mineral resources in a better way than they could have one of the best economies in world right now. Actually I never heard any major technological achievement coming from any African nation either so feels like lack of education is the primary reason behind which is the poor leadership.

Yeah.. there are ghost cities in almost every province of China, and the Western media has covered some of these stories. The demand was there when these housing units were being constructed, but a sudden economic slump meant that there are few takers. And this is also one of the reasons why China is focusing on Africa. For them, Africa is a glowing economy, compared to China where it is at near saturation level.

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.

Are Africans are smart enough for this? With all this chairty programs they will never be developed. Its like free drugs for addict in hope that he will stop use it

Yes, African countries are improving in the areas of Education, economic and infrastructure that is going on show that African is developing with the strategies on ground. African leaders are joining hands together to move African forward by fighting corruption in all over the countries. The leaders accepted to legalized Bitcoin all over the countries to support their economy and to improve the bitcoin users to make more profit from their investment.

That's the thing, foreign helps mostly sucking their natural resources. Knowing that Africa don't have any capabilities and with corrupt leaders they continue to suffer.

They are good as they've got rich in natural resources but they don't have advance knowledge and system to take advantages of everything.

It takes time, but the willingness of their people to learn and to have dedicated leaders
will make all of this to happen and increase the potential of this nations.

If they prioritize education, then they will be able to come up with better technology. The problem here is that the rapid growth of population necessitates the prioritization of food and healthcare over education. And when they do that the technological advance is blocked. And as a result, they will be left with just the raw products and not the finished goods. In order to convert the raw materials to final product, they need advanced technology. So for that they need to depend on foreign countries.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?