One can’t help but to scratch one’s head as to just why Africa’s mineral resources aren’t being extracted more extensively. Obviously, one of the obstacles is effective power sharing, with knowledge of ethnicities only providing the tip of the overall required knowledge. Sometimes I feel that the only way a poor region can become industrialized is through communism. How else could factories be built, in a place with no money to buy them? Perhaps the global compromise in this case is to make Africa communist if china ever decides to be democratic, helping the latter be service based, and the former be industry based. The politics involved here is the balance between the services sector and the manufacturing sector, for if the world is majority communist, more products will be manufactured than can be utilized by companies and individuals, and humanity’s thirst for products is only so much. In the end, any none African thinking about Africa is effectively a colonist, but, to be brutally honest, until communist provides that initial seventy year boost to development, there is no other alternative for helping the continent.