“A Thirty-Year Perspective: Past and Future” is a series of windows into the 30-year period in sub-Saharan Africa that has seen rapid change in GDP per capita since from the early 1970s until 1987. The document outlines several reasons for the lack of development in these countries and proposes various strategies that could help reform their economic conditions for a better future. From my point of view, the article focuses on modernization theories, and this article contradicts this theory by supporting the dependency theory, critically analyzing the reasons for Africa's poor economic performance in the past , as well as possibilities for the future. land with immense possibilities due to the abundance of resources, but unfortunately their "high hopes of rapid development" have suffered a crucial downfall, with fundamental problems in the economic, social and political arenas of the subcontinent. The World Bank article provides evidence that suggests that modernization theory is the main driving force allowing weak state institutions to grow, referring to the importance of economic growth and industrialization of countries to develop. “Industrialization was seen as the engine of economic growth”, and the emphasis on the importance of “transforming traditional economies” shows enough evidence to prove the advocating modernization theory in order to achieve development (p. 16, A Thirty Year Perspective: Past and Future, 1989). Modernization theorists consider the main source of change to be in terms of innovations and encourage the underdeveloped world to adopt new ideas, techniques and values ​​that would transcend them from a traditional society to a "more rational" one. . . Hence the middle...... middle of paper ......• World Bank. 1989. “A thirty-year perspective: past and future” In sub-Saharan Africa: from crisis to sustainable growth (chap. 1) • POL201 Conference University of Toronto, October 11: Dependency, underdevelopment and dependent development. • http :/ /www.undp.org/africa/ - United Nations Development Program, 2011• Mukherjee, Aditya. 2010. “Empire: How Colonial India Created Modern Britain.” » Economic and political weekly XLV, no. 50• Amin, Samir. 1972. “Underdevelopment and dependence in black Africa: historical origin”. Journal of Peace Research 9, no. 2• Valenzuela, J. Samuel and Arturo Valenzuela. 1978. “Modernization and Dependence: Alternative Perspectives in the Study of Latin American Underdevelopment.” Comparative Politics 10 (4) • Cardoso, FH and E. Faletto, 1979. “Preface to the English edition”. In Dependence and underdevelopment in Latin America