I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.

I feel like Africans are too often portrayed as people on the National Geographic channel: the image is of an African man in a loincloth chasing a gazelle. It's not intentionally racist; I wouldn't call it racist at all. It's a lack of understanding another culture.

Africa is a continent that provides so much for the existence of the rest of the world. We go around the world and cultivate so many things.

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