Africa's Business model

KingBrian2

Sub Saharan African economies are rich in resources such as Gold, Iron, Diamond, Cobalt, Platinum and many other precious commodities. They all are exported to China, India and the like making them export driven countries. I get this. What puzzles me is that do these economies not equally need machinery and equipment to be imported into the country in order to extract the commodities in the first place or is it simple the case that the foreign importers just arrive at the behest of the gvt and receive grants to mine. My question is to ascertain if the African economy is more importer driven than solely depending on selling goods to China since gvts would require a lot of personnel to handle all the interactions between the mining interests and local representatives.

flogen

This is not a News/Media topic - I can't find the right forum to send it to, though, so I'm just going to close the thread.