African countries should add value to commodities before exporting – Obasanjo
By CNBC Africa
25 July 2016 |
9:30 am
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said that African countries could achieve industrialisation by focusing their efforts on locally available commodities and by developing local entrepreneurs and industrialists.
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