[akomtu]

You mean they stole gold and cadmium? There are three uses of raw minerals: as jewelry, as something to exchange for goods, and as a component of high tech. For most of the Africa, minerals are jewelry at most and to get goods, you need an advanced nation to produce these goods for you. The phone you're using to post these comments has trace amounts of gold and cobalt, probably sourced in Africa, but the rest - the Internet in particular - wasnt created in Africa. And by using goods produced in Europe/America/China, you become complicit in this arrangement.