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The Africans ‘left behind’

Born poor, live poor, expect to die poor unless ...

The Africans ‘left behind’

21 century Africa has progressed much further than many people realise. And individual
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African governments have well-established programmes to develop the infrastructure
needed for a self-dependent economy.

But Africa is vast. It will take still more generations for the required kind of pan-

African development to reach all regions. Not every region of Africa is blessed with the
conditions that make economic development easy. And within individual African countries

the government, like every other government, has to prioritise how it commits its budget
spending.

So for many years in the future there will be countries, regions within countries and

individual communities which will need help from the international community.
Mature m’zungu economies are still benefiting from the proceeds of the slave trade.

According to Nathan Nunn’s study 72% of the average income gap between Africa and the

rest of the world would not exist today if it were not for that slave trade.
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Africa's Least Developed Countries (LDC) 157

The least developed countries (LDCs) is a list of developing countries that, according to
the United Nations, exhibit the lowest indicators of socioeconomic development, with the

lowest Human Development Index ratings of all countries in the world.

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There are 33 African states that are classified as ‘least developed’

Angola Eritrea Mali South Sudan
Benin Ethiopia Mauritania Sudan

Burkina Faso Gambia Mozambique Tanzania
Burundi Guinea Niger Togo

CAR Guinea-Bissau Rwanda Uganda
Chad Lesotho São Tomé & P Zambia

Comoros Liberia Senegal
DRC Madagascar Sierra Leone

Djibouti Malawi Somalia