1. Dark Diamond
Development in Africa
Gang Yang
Ipsit Dash

2. The Dark Continent
Largest
Juvenile Army
Home of Human in operation,
Species, AIDS,
Highest Drug
Cannibals
Trafficking
Average
54 Countries, income =
1500 languages, $ 0.70
1 Billion People /person/day
46% world diamonds,
Highest Debt 21% world gold,
Profiles, 16% world uranium,
Lowest Rankings in 62% world Platinum
Human Development
Index 25 million HIV +,
90% world
Malaria,

3. •Most countries have struggling
Economy, especially Mid- Africa.
•Snail paced GDP with Mounting
Inflation.
•Zimbabwe, Congo D.R, Liberia have
Negative GDP and Rising Inflation !
•Western Sahara, South Sudan,
Guinea- Bissaue have Negative
Inflation Rates 
Lower Income 0- $ 995
Lower Middle $ 996- $ 3945
Upper Middle $ 3946- $ 12195
Higher Income $ 12196 ++

4. Late Independence
•Colonization
•Dictatorship MDGs not fulfilled
•Slave Trade
•Health Care
•Religious- Ethnic Group conflicts
•Poverty
•Education
Increased Rise of Local Mafia
Declining •Increased Juvenile Crime
Privatization Economy •Drug Trafficking
•Less Democracy and •Control of Diamond Mines
More Bureaucracy and Oil Fields. Ex- RUF
• Top 1% population
have access to 90 %
resources. China owns
40% Sudan Oil reserves
•High Corruption
Clipped
Demographic Development
•Limited Urban development
Features •No infrastructure for
•High Population Technology
•Disease prone •No sustainable resource
•Hostile Environment extraction
•Lack of Support for
development

5. •Almost all African Countries have Low
Harmony Index.
•Majorities of Refugees in Africa
originate from Middle Africa. (Evident
from map)
•This most violent area is just the area
with the lowest income group .

6. •Africa has largest reserves of
Crude Oil and Diamonds.
•Some countries have + BOT
•Due to Large reserves of minerals( gold,
diamond) and crude oil etc.
•Improving infrastructure.
•But majority of countries
have – BOT even they have
plenty of mineral reserves
( Congo, Namibia) and oil deposits
( Sudan, Egypt)

7. •Surprisingly, Most corrupt countries
have better standards of living
indicating unequal resource
allocations!
•Least corrupt countries have majority
of population below poverty line.
•Millennium Development Goals not
fulfilled (even after 12 years of
implementation).
•High rates of HIV, Malaria, Infant
Mortality rates in mid Africa.

8. Points to Ponder!!
• Better Organized Governance System to facilitate
proper resource allocation. Ex- African Union
• Heavy investment in Public Sector to improvise
Infrastructure, health and Education.
• Combined military efforts to curb Violence and
Local Uprisings.
• Treating the problem of Africa as our own
problem and cooperating for its sustainable
development.