By Dan Agbese
It was the dark continent. It is the cursed continent. Thus, did it happen that Africa, perhaps the luckiest continent in the world with unbelievable natural resource endowments, and a population of 1,466,649,930, accounting for 17.89 per cent of the world population, is the wretched of the earth.
It
is a beggar continent, dependent on handouts from the other continents for the
survival of its 54 nations and their increasingly impoverished people.
