To me, the chain is simple and until Africa breaks away from it, we wouldn’t see much of a progress in all aspects of our lives..
Ignorance—>Poverty—-> Religion—->Superstition.
Reports coming in Uganda say ‘hundreds’ of “Ugandan children are being sacrificed every year by witch doctors who have convinced the country’s superstitious elite that mutilating them will make them even richer.”
So you have a group of elites actually believing this nonsense and innocent children have to suffer for their ignorance.