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While Africa accounts for about 30 per cent of the world's reserves of hydrocarbons and minerals and 14 per cent of the world's population, its share of global manufacturing stood in 2011 exactly where it stood in 2000: at 1 percent. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other emerging markets have transformed their economies, Africa's resource states remained tethered to the bottom of the industrial supply chain. The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. ![]() One of Financial Times' Books of the Year, 2015 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thanks to and updating daily, its popularity dramatically increased, reaching over 3 million reads in less than six months. He was born in London in 1990 and found a passion for writing during early adolescence, beginning his first book at 9 years old. The Summoner’s Handbook reveals the story of James Baker the epic journal that inspired. 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