Africa is the world’s second-largest continent, with 54 countries, each with its own unique culture and history ... many African countries remain among the poorest in the world.

We are steeped in poverty due to our poor mentality ... local populations. The culture of dependency is not only economic, but also systemic, rooted in the way African countries have engaged ...

Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the ...

Mr Dercon points to India, Bangladesh and Vietnam as examples of Asian countries that were as poor as many in Africa today, but found the right elite consensus. He argues that Ethiopia and Rwanda ...

African culture is being recognised worldwide ... The total population of its 54 countries has doubled in 30 years, to 1.5bn. The un predicts it will double again by 2070. Most of the population ...

A new World Bank report shows that poverty in Africa ... people are poor, the report says. The most optimistic scenario shows about 330 million poor in 2012, up from about 280 million in 1990. Poverty ...