Conflict Minerals: How to Make the Most of Africa’s Business Boom

Aug 9, 2014 | Sara Murphy, The Motley Fool
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Following the close of this week's unprecedented U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, the business community's eyes are trained on Africa. Perhaps not since colonization has the West demonstrated such concerted interest in that part of the world, with all its promise and peril. Africa's more than 1 billion people have no interest in allowing history to repeat itself, and companies that hope to profit from the continent's potential will have to use an entirely new playbook to succeed. Some figured this out quite a while ago.