For years, we refused to acknowledge that the cause of Africa's underdevelopment and resulting poverty was corruption. One popular explanation for our poverty was that African states were structured on the Core-Periphery model.
The core was inhabited by rich countries and the periphery by poor ones. Wealth, in terms of raw materials, flowed from the periphery to the core. This relationship ensured that rich nations continued to grow their wealth at the expense of poor ones.
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