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The Reith Lectures: Ali Mazrui - The African Condition: The Burden of Underdevelopment 

Ali Mazrui - The African Condition

28/11/1979

The Burden of Underdevelopment 

BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Ali Mazrui - The African Condition, The Burden of Underdevelopment

Professor Ali Mazrui examines the burden of Africa's economic underdevelopment.

Professor Ali Mazrui examines the burden of Africa's underdevelopment and asks why the resource rich region accommodates some of the poorest countries in the world.

Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ali Mazrui, considers Africa's lack of economic development in his fourth Reith lecture from his series entitled 'The African Condition'. 

In this lecture entitled 'The Burden of Underdevelopment', Professor Ali Mazrui questions how such a resource rich region of the world accommodates some of the poorest countries in the world. 

The Reith Lectures: Ali Mazrui - The African Condition

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

The academic and political writer Ali Mazrui delivers the 1979 Reith Lectures.

Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ali Mazrui, explores the paradoxes within the current and historical state of Africa.

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