What are the main causes of poverty in Africa?

In terms of resources, Africa is the richest continent. Yet, one in three Africans lives below the global poverty line. Africans make up 70 percent of the global poor, and their numbers are rising. What is really responsible for this?
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Bunmi, you are simply on point with all your research, opinion and understanding. 🙏🏿🖤 Asante Sana!

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Oh dear, the video cut short midway 😢☺️👌🏿 I hope you get the rest of it uploaded. It's right on the money 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

[shawtfinga]

The costs of African poverty is the colonizer..the colonizer have their hand in everything Africa doing to make progress.keeping Africa from making any kind of head way faward .the only way African can side step the negative plan of the colonizer is unite African as one Africa

[margaretadekunle]

Sister Bunmi I love your intelligence.can we start. a revival of pan African

[CrowdPleeza]

How much has over regulation and red tape played in stagnating African economic development?

"IT TAKES on average 4.3 days to satisfy the regulatory requirements to start a business in North America, according to the World Bank. In Africa, it takes 69.5 days."

"It’s no economic secret that lumbering bureaucracies undercut productivity, encourage commerce outside the formal sector and fuel corruption, but Africa has been slower than other parts of the world in recognising this. Now that’s starting to change. More and more countries on the continent are beginning to streamline their regulatory regimes to jumpstart their economies. The new government in Kenya has begun moving towards a single business permit. Uganda recently launched a pilot streamlined trade-licensing system..."

Freeing Business From A Tangle of Red Tape-SAiiA