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Editorial: Why is independent Africa still poor?

The question is not why the poor keep asking for help, but why after independence, our economies still produce so few people who no longer need to ask. It is about why it takes this long to change it.
Wonder Guchu
  • 1 Hour Ago - 2026-10-05 00:05:00
The uncomfortable question is no longer whether poverty exists in Africa, but why economies endowed with enormous natural and human resources still leave so many people dependent o
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