ABSTRACT
The facts of poverty in postcolonial Africa have been widely documented in comments and statistics provided by organizations and individuals. The internalist viewpoint, which has been loudest since the end of the Cold War, is that external historical factors such as the slave trade and colonialism are too remote justifications for postcolonial Africa's malaise. Agbo is correct in pointing out that corruption and bad leadership seriously complicate postcolonial Africa's poverty profile. Stanley C. Igwe, also writing in 2010, argues that blaming colonialism for Africa's woes is out of place because, according to him, Africa was not developed prior to the slave trade and colonialism, Africans were not literate, and they lacked knowledge of how to plow and make the wheel. Dambisa Moyo argues that the most important cause of poverty on the continent is dependence on foreign aid. The World Bank's 1994 report proposed that postcolonial Africa adopt macro-economic reforms for its growth, development, and movement out of poverty.
