As a personal hunch, the cause for galloping - hyper inflation; aside from classical economical innuendos, in Africa, tends to be rooted in lack of economic direction from one regime to another and or longterm strategy of foundational utility - this sees that although resources are plentiful - we remain victim to contemporary development and dependant as a result of poor streamlining and beurocractic cohesion in the majority of our sectors internally and on the continental scale in application to gravity economical theory.
We often complain about the terrible physical infrastructure but rarely put in check our systems infrastructure - or atleast the people who operate them. As I said - just a hunch.
Corruption and miseducation in Africa is a major reason as to why many of our founding farthers believed we weren't ready to operate without authoritarian rule - until the anti gave way.
With factions within our political infrastructure, I wouldn't be off by saying some economical directives are led by the tax payers whereas others, the bidders.
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