Industrialization in Africa has been sluggish, with manufacturing accounting for only 13 percent of Africa’s GDP and 25 percent of its exports – a share which is the smallest of any region in the world. This is not a good prospect for a mineral-rich continent whose population is still stuck in rudimentary subsistence farming and occasional cash crops that won’t break even. The result has been abject poverty – ironic for what outwardly looks like a heaven.
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