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This paper describes changes over the past 15-20 years in non-income measures of wellbeing - education and health - in Africa, a period during which it has undergone intense globalisation. Results indicate that in the area of health, little progress is being made in terms of reducing pre-school age stunting, a clear manifestation of poor overall health. Likewise, our health inequality measure showed that while there were a few instances of reduced inequality along this dimension, there was, on balance, little evidence of success in improving equality of outcomes. Similar results were found in our examination of underweight women as an indicator of general current health status of adults. The overall picture gives little cause for complacency or optimism that Africa has reaped, or will soon reap the potential benefits of the process of globalisation. The researchers conclude that there is little to suggest that globalisation is correlated (positively or negatively) with health and education outcomes. While these results may be viewed as somewhat disappointing, they likely reflect the complexity and context specific nature of the dynamic processes that both contribute to changes in the globalisation indexes employed, and how they transmit through very different economic and social structures to affect non-income poverty.