I laugh at my continent when foreigners call us poor. You make a statement online about the continent or any country in it and the first thing that comes to people mind is "That poor country or poor continent". Who is to be blamed for all these, it isn't just the leaders anymore but the people are to be held responsible because they voted those leaders into power.
The image below shows you how wealthy Africa is and if she wasn't being raped she would had been the richest continent on earth.

What my continent have failed to realized is that power won't be given to you unless you fight for it. If the world was a fair one most African countries would had been among world leading country but instead we get treated like slaves and our wealth is been enjoy by other continents. What a shame
From the marvel movie "Blackpanther" i believe the solution to the continent (Africa) problem is to act as the past Kings of wakanda did with their natural resource: Vibranium, they should learn to manage their resources themselves and later they can sell finish products to the outside world.Africa is not poor. Africans are.
To develop and manufacture new products you need scientists, engineers, IT guys, business managers.
What the "Blackpanther" movie portrayed was pure utopia.
What Africans can hope for is to go the Chinese route (attract foreign investment), but one crucial ingredient is missing: education. Chinese communist education system is among the top education systems in the world. Africans don't have a world-class education system, that is why they will never be able to compete on the world stage unless they tackle that issue first.
Lack of knowledge from the residents caused the foreign countries to take all the resource from their country and making them as poor even when they have lot of wealthy resources on their land.