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Africa: The Last Resource Frontier /  Paul Collier. Project Syndicate, 25/02/2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/pcollier2/EnglishIn the coming decade, extraction of oil, gas, and mineral ores will  constitute by far the most important economic opportunity in Africa’s  history. Africa is the last frontier for resource discovery, having long  been relatively neglected by mining and other resource-extraction  companies, owing to difficult political conditions. But rising commodity  prices are overcoming reluctance, and prospecting is generating a  multitude of new discoveries...