This paper considers the progress of poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa using multidimensional indices. The Human Development Index (HDI) produced by the United Nations considers aspects of human development in income, health and education. This study seeks to offers an addition, with similar calculations, of the composition of variables to also include technology and gender equality. The index is applied to 40 countries in the Sub-Saharan African region. By observing the changes in the index between the years of 2005 and 2010, we find our index shows remarkable improvement in human development over the period. We conclude that multivariate wellbeing in Africa appears to have been improving, although there is evidence of continuing divergence between already well performing countries and those lagging behind.