Patrick Yau, an analyst at Macquarie Research, thinks Olam's earnings per share will grow an average of 14% over two years, even though several of its commodities, which spiked not long ago, have plunged back down.

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Africa's problem is that it's not earning enough money and that's largely because the prices paid for its commodities, its minerals and its agricultural produce, has gone down by something like 60 percent in the last decade.

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