Underdevelopment and backwardness continue to hunt African continent despite its vast natural and human resource endowments even after decades of colonial master's disengagement. While some people continue to blame the continent's woes on its initial contact with the Western world characterized by centuries of slavery and later colonialism which introduced indirect rule and corrupt bureaucratic system of administration, neo-colonialism proffering harmful economic policies such as Structural Adjustment Program (SAP), economy deregulation, arbitrary imposition of prices on natural resources extracts and commodity products at the international markets thereby impacting negatively on the people. Others blame the continent's woes to ineffective, greedy and corrupt leadership who blindly rip their states and stashed or invest overseas. Also, there is the allegation of underhand sponsoring of civil conflicts and violent wars to have hampered the continent's development efforts by the West. However, the paper questioned how long will it take African continent to self-realisation and put itself back on track? Africans should look inward and renew and advance their ancient entrepreneurial skills with the aim of blending it with Western technology. Operating true federalism that will address issues such as ethnicity, conflicts arising from resource control, honest and effective leadership recruitment gaps are imperative.
Africa continent, Colonialism, Self-realization, Underdevelopment, True Federalism
