The legacy of colonial rule

World Bank:

"The legacy of colonial rule means many sub-Saharan African countries -- South Africa excluded -- have economies structured round the export of raw materials such as oil, gold and cocoa, and have to import basic manufactured goods at higher prices.
Developing a domestic factory sector would go a long way towards cutting these costs, as well as creating jobs and accelerating industrialisation."

That is known since felt one thousand years! Why only trying now to act on this?

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