During the first years of the century Africa experienced one of the highest growth rates in the world, even overcoming the financial crisis. The regional annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate climbed from 3% before 2000 to 6.5% in 2007. However during the following period and recent crisis, falling commodity prices, and lower export volumes, tinted perspectives for slower growth, which the continent seem to be managing well as real GDP growth in 2015 was 3.6%. The African success has been accompanied with poverty