19. EFE JOSEPH
A part of Africa is missing. It is identifiable, yet its indescribable absence ultimately felt. For quite a long time Africa has been shaded in the sphere of industrialization, seen as insignificant to the economic affairs of the World along with other such labels as having little to offer, unintelligent and impoverished this comes particularly from Western prejudices. In the 14 th century, resources development in Africa was on par with Europe and Asia this was so because before industrialization the economy of a continent was determined by the amount of people living in that continent and at that time mineral extraction and utilization was optimal. Unfortunately, between the late 15 th to early 20 th century Africa’s economy had slowly and steadily declined because of incidence like the slave trade-especially crafts men, Colonization, Foreign interference, Corruption and Greed, Civil war -separation of powerful states into factions and the need for self-preserva...