This book looks at sub-Saharan Africa with one purpose - to analyse the reasons for its citizens' poverty. It sheds some light upon the balance between internal factors (governance; economy; war and conflict) and external factors (post-colonialism and the neoliberal global economy) that have affected sub-Saharan Africa. The book shows that the problem of poverty is not inevitable, nor due to anything inherent in sub-Saharan African citizens, nor is it the result of lack of resources but rather it is the outcome of particular circumstances designed to benefit the controllers of the current...