'Western elites' mostly simply ignore Africa
Apart from the massively lucrative diamond, gold, oil and more prosaic mineral rights, and certain kinds of agriculture.
Africa is potentially a ridiculously rich continent, made poor by some very traditional colonial pillage.
Apartheid was always as much about diamonds and gold as it was about simple racism.
And that market exists in The West(TM).
Clamp down on all the diamond smuggling, dirty oil deals and so on and so forth, and you might actually create an incentive structure that isn't quite so badly skewed towards looting.
Kinda the same way that a British effort at prosecuting Russian oligarchs in London for tax evasions might have stopped the looting of Russia.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
