The Highs and Lows of African Oil

Workers skate at a massive plant in Port Louis, Mauritius. It makes everything from T shirts to designer dresses.

Benedicte Kurzen—Eve for TIME
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The one hope? Bad Africa can forge exceptional businessmen. Angola's prospects, in other words, rest on men like Cassalongo. "I'm going to make it," he says. "I take on challenges. And I work." And perhaps, so will Africa, good and bad.

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