Diamonds in Africa - Sierra Leone and the conflict diamond trade

Date Submitted: 09/09/2004 04:10:33
Category: / History / World History
Length: 8 pages (2283 words)
Diamonds In Africa Following the economic upheaval of the Depression and World War Two, DeBeers, the company with nearly an absolute stranglehold on the diamond supply, began a marketing campaign of such ferocity that it literally changed the structure of Western value systems, but most notably in America. Commencing in the 1930s, this campaign spent in the U.S. alone on average per year over 100 million dollars on advertising. The current budget to promote diamonds …
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