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POPSAfrica: Paradox of Plenty INTERACTIVE While Africa is blessed with much natural wealth — gold, diamonds, ores from tin to uranium, oil and ivory — it has also long been a target for plunder. Listen to Ian Fisher recount how some, mostly outsiders, built great fortunes off of Africa's material riches — and for centuries its people as well — while it remained the poorest continent in the world. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/12/14/world/africa/20081215-africa-resources-graphic.html