ABSTRACT

Africa is the most disadvantaged continent in terms of poverty, political unrest, quality of life and human suffering. Many, though by no means all, of the ills of Africa derive directly or indirectly from its colonial inheritance. Any worthwhile schemes for achieving this will be costly and at present are well beyond the means of most African countries. There is still a tendency in Africa for international boundary lines to repel modern economic development and there are, for example, few cross-border paved roads compared with the intensity of networks developed within national boundaries. The lack of international co-operation is well illustrated by the latter divide, as a paved road stretches for over 375 miles north of Eldoret in Kenya to within 20 miles of the Sudan border, where it meets an unsurfaced road for the 250-mile route to Juba.