A community’s production has numerous sectors and sub sectors and in undeveloped communities like the ones found in Africa, only a few of these sectors are developed. Most of the production sectors in these communities still remain largely undeveloped with production mainly done using traditional means.
There is little or no employment of modern ways of production such as use of machines, new knowledge, innovations, factories, industries, companies, brands and others. Instead of companies, large firms or factories providing the community goods and services, it is the informal, subsistence producers and small businesses. These carry out most of the production in these communities and must rely on outdated ways to produce.
African communities thus, are undeveloped because most of their production is done using outdated, informal, traditional, and usually subsistence means. These methods of production are very poor in efficiency, they are hard to use and result in poor quality and low quantity of goods and services produced.
Another reason is that most production is done and managed by people who are neither informed of nor skilled in modern ways of production. This has failed to change despite the increase of literacy levels in Africa because those who go to school neglect these undeveloped sectors and only scramble the few developed production sectors.
The goods and services from these production sectors are what are used to build the lifestyles in these communities. They are the main sources of livelihood and provide the income needed to afford what can be used to live there. Since these products are poor, the community members cannot depend on them to improve their livelihoods, afford and enjoy any developed lifestyle.
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