>>510538219>GoldAustralia, Canada and USA produce more gold than all of Africa.
>DiamondsWorthless, artificially inflated economy and they can be made synthetically. Nobody really needs African diamonds.
>UraniumAustralia and Canada have the largest Uranium reserves.
>CopperChile is the biggest producer in the world, Africa is up there but USA and Australia are also sizeable copper producers, we don't exclusively depend on Africa for it.
>ironAustralia, Brazil, Argentina, India, Canada all produce iron. Australia alone produces more iron ore than pretty much all of Africa combined.
>fabrics & textilesPlease, we have never depended on Africa for this and we never will. The pajeets (despite their many shortcomings) can produce massive amounts of high quality fabrics.
>coffeeBrazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Indonesia.
>teaAfrica barely registers here. Between the pajeets and China they have the world market sown up. But even Australia grows some of it's own tea.
>chocolateThis is about the only commodity that you listed where Africa is important, but pretty much every country that grows coffee can grow cocoa and Indonesia is already one of the top five major cocoa producers, Colombia and Brazil are also up there.
They can't make and repair tools, or buildings without African countries
Western countries were making and repairing buildings long before they even colonised Africa or started trading with them. Africa needs us way more than we need them. The other anon was right, without gibs they would collapse and descend into chaos and savagery.