The African continent has a land area of 30.37 million square kilometers (11.7 million square miles) large enough to fit in the U.S., China, India, Japan, Mexico, and many European nations, combined.
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Kissinger also told Ford that the continent must not be allowed to develop because “Africa is important to us. Many key products coffee, cocoa, cobalt, chrome, iron ore, diamonds come from Africa, 30 to 60 per cent of our consumption; and for our European allies, the figures are even higher. The radicalisation of Africa would turn the Europeans, vis-a-vis Africa, into commercial enterprises rather than governments (we must) arrest the armed struggle in Southern Africa…