However, the growth rate in East Africa is also considered very fast. After entering the 20th century, the pace of urbanization in East Africa has surpassed other great powers every year, except for Japan. The industrial development of other great powers has taken nearly a century of accumulation.
Take Germany for example. Germany began its industrialization around the mid-19th century, but this does not mean Germany had no industrial base before that. Germany was one of the later countries to industrialize among the great powers. East Africa's industrial movement formally began only with the First Five-Year Plan.
