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Political and technological control had enabled the west to extend an empire in Africa during the Nineteenth Century. The underdevelopment of Africa can be explained in the terms of the socio-economic-political and cultural processes and their footprints are clear. European builders had adopted different strategies and policies in Africa to make money through exploration, colonisation, commercialisation, robbery, and theft. The poor countries of Africa with the less developed technology are left with the limited possibilities of exploiting the raw material at cheap rates that keep them underdeveloped. Besides this, other contributing factors are colonial legacy, slave trade, wars, poverty, illiteracy, Structural Adjustment Program, large families, corruption and lack of accountability. The Dependency Theory analyses the internal changing scenario of underdevelopment and other various aspects of being dependent. In this, the contribution of Andre Gunder Frank, Wallerstein, Dos Santos, Celso Furtado, and Frantz Fanon is commendable and they all agree to the point that underdevelopment of the Third World countries are directly related to their neo-colonial existence, i.e., external dependence upon the developed countries. Hence, this paper will examine the nature of dependency that leads to underdevelopment of Africa.