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How To Fight Poverty in Africa
The three major solutions to tackle poverty in Africa are changing the legal system, investing in Africa, not handouts, and addressing the legacy of colonialism and its attitude toward capitalism; the Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, and Public Speaker Magatta Wade has proposed the solutions.
The Legacy of Law in Africa Since The End of Colonialism
The former French colonial nations which are (French: Afrique-Occidentale française, AOF) was a federation of eight French colonial territories in West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali), French Guinea (now Guinea), Ivory Coast, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), Dahomey (now Benin) and Niger.
Or follow French law or the Napoleonic code, to be more precise, after gaining their independence in the 1950s and 60s.
According to Magatte Wade, the reason for the problems in Africa is the legacy of “French colonial law and what it did to Africa with the law code not representing a law of the Commons”.
MS Wade advocates adopting “the British common law or, to be more precise, English common law because it is more representative of the people.”
What is so compelling about the English common law is that unlike French law, which has its roots in Roman tradition and Salic law, it is…
