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I argue that efforts to understand and address the problem of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa might be politicised. I examine three hypotheses in this regard: the neo-colonial hypothesis, which can be associated with some African intellectuals and academics who claim that the west impoverishes Africa through neo-colonial agenda; the dictatorship hypothesis, which can be associated with western governments, global institutions and their agents who claim that perennial corrupt dictatorships in Africa impoverish the nations of the continent; and the ineptitude hypothesis, which can be associated with some western and African intellectuals, some western governments and global institutions as well as some African politicians. Here, there is crisscrossing claims about corruption and ineptitude which remand the nations of sub-Sahara in poverty. I show that these hypotheses are often associated with poverty discussions in sub-Saharan Africa at both national and international levels. I argue that advocates of these hypotheses merely leverage on some isolated facts to draw unconnected, and sometimes, unwarranted conclusions for political and interest-based reasons.
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