Come Quote by Robin Wright

The main mineral in your cellphone, coltan [a black metallic ore], comes from the Eastern Congo. Multinational corporations are there exploiting the very rich…

— Noam Chomsky

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

— Bill Gates

The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.

— Olusegun Obasanjo

If you go into the Ecuadorian Amazon and you stick your hand in the ground, what you get is oil sludge. The oil companies…

— Rafael Correa

The Congo is very wealthy from oil money but is not paying its debts and at the same time is applying for special status…

— Paul Singer

“Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how…

— Siddharth Kara

Africa is where commodities are found, so it is vital that Glencore and other miners are there to develop those resources, helping Africa itself…

— Ivan Glasenberg

There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its…

— Paul Kagame

The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

They're taking jobs. They're stealing our intellectual property, our patents, our designs, our technology, hacking into our computers, counterfeiting our goods.

— Mitt Romney

Billions of dollars are thrown at African countries.

— Mo Ibrahim

It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results…

— Edward Zwick