Abstract

Africa has not broken the jinx of its developmental conundrum. Many questions arise; is the issue of development in Africa a unique case study? What is the ultimate cause of this developmental challenge? The ultimate challenge before any Africa scholar is therefore to find ultimate answers to the questions posed above. This paper finds the answer in crass materialism that arose at a certain period of African history before colonialism. It goes further to agree that this materialistic stance was responsible for the weak response of the Africa during its contact with the West as it capitulated for “superior” materialistic ideology. It argues further that unless there is a complete recognition of collective agency as a way of exerting the will to change and the creation of an internalist-externalist development ideology, it will continue to wallow in total un-developable movement as it is currently doing.