Africa: The Last Resource Frontier
Africa: The Last Resource Frontier / Paul Collier. Project Syndicate, 25/02/2011
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/pcollier2/English
In the coming decade, extraction of oil, gas, and mineral ores will constitute by far the most important economic opportunity in Africa’s history. Africa is the last frontier for resource discovery, having long been relatively neglected by mining and other resource-extraction companies, owing to difficult political conditions. But rising commodity prices are overcoming reluctance, and prospecting is generating a multitude of new discoveries…