Paradox of Plenty (NYTimes)

While Africa is blessed with much natural wealth — gold, diamonds, ores from tin to uranium, oil and ivory — it has also long been a target for plunder. Listen to Ian Fisher recount how some, mostly outsiders, built great fortunes off of Africa’s material riches — and for centuries its people as well — while it remained the poorest continent in the world.

Check out the graphics and audio of the plunder here.

H/T Kiwanja