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The fundamental question is why is poverty in Africa increasing? The answer lies in systematic plunder of Africa’s resources for the last 500 years. All of Africa is basically still colonized. Her resources are held at ransom for the exclusive exploitation by multinational corporations. Whatever is under the ground be it fossil fuels or minerals are mined and extracted raw and taken out of the region with little left in compensation. Whatever is on top of the land in the form of arable land is alienated for multinational agri-business and small scale cash crops like tea, coffee, flowers which for the use of westerners while the Africans who farm the produce get equivalent of 5 percent. African peasants are pushed off their land by western multinationals to give room for cash crop . This is being done with the connivance of local politicians who sit on the board of directors.The solution lies in curtailing the plunder of Africa’s resources which leads to the twin tribulations of environmental degradation and abject human poverty which leads inability to cope with even mild curable diseases let alone deadly ones like diseases HIV-Aids.

To solve the high incidence of deaths in Africa then, the poverty problem has to be confronted head-on. And to effectively deal with Africa’s poverty, her resources needs to be left for her to process by herself. The recovery lies in that. If international organizations including UN, are genuinely interested in the turning around of the human calamity in Africa, then all the focus should be in empowering citizens to charge of natural resource management by strengthening non-elitist democratic governance, transparency and accountability.