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The article presents a study which relates the traditional work attitudes of West African labor force employed at the Marampa mine in Sierra Leone, to the level of work efficiency and adaptation they attained. The West African tribal groups discussed in the study include the Mende, the Limba, and the Temne tribes. According to the author, the article also analyzes the value orientation of these West African labor force with emphasis on the relationship between traditional work habits and work efficiency.

The article reports on the proliferation of informal miners in the Katanga province, Congo after the Democratic Republic of the Congo's state mining sector collapsed due to corruption, war and mismanagement. Many of the miners were children who worked in alarming conditions with no health or safety regulations being imposed. Edia Kasongo, a young miner, stated that he had to give up school and has to work in order to buy them food and provide money for her family.