Africa Betrayed offers a very authoritative narrative of the challenges of development in Africa. What makes the work a seminal one, however, is its focus on the cultural, mental, and other “intangible” dimensions of the evolution of the challenges of the African past and present. This focus provides for the author, an African intellectual with wide ranging experience in, and insightful perception of the theoretical, empirical, practical and policy dimensions of the African realities gleaned from decades of hands-on contemplation, a unique take on his subject.