The Importance of Africa to The World System After 9/11 Attacks: War on Terrorism or Integration for Sustainable Development

4.2.2 The advantages to the countries of the Gulf of Guinea as a blessing;

The Gulf of Guinea became as the world strategic reserve for oil and energy resources from the quotation “We dare not fail…African countries have had many opportunities to develop but we have blown them. Oil represents a last opportunity for these countries to break out of poverty’’⁴⁹ oil raises hopes and exploitation as an opportunity to boost the countries and its peoples. Hopes for a better tomorrow comes with oil resources as it brings investment opportunity and create employment for the population. Oil investment in the sub Saharan Africa, gulf of guinea, represents represents 50% of all FDI’s⁵⁰