40 years ago China was actually more impoverished and less developed than Africa. The levels of poverty and extreme poverty were at about 60-70%. Today they don’t have anybody in poverty. What they have achieved is remarkable, and they showed that it can be done. Africa (and I know it’s not a country lol) needs to do the same. It needs to unify, invest in it’s own people, it’s own infrastructure and build itself up.
Jeffrey Sachs is an economist and he is very much worth listening to, on this subject and many others. I fully agree with his prescription here.