growth of 6 per cent that Africa experienced in the five years, leading up to the 2008 economic crisis was underpinned by a spectacular increase in the continent’s trade in commodities whose prices increased significantly over the period 2007-8.
The commodity prices which showed the highest increase are oil followed by metals. There was a less dramatic increase in the prices of cocoa, coffee, sugar, tea and wood..
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