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This paper examines the role ethnicity plays in forming people's attitudes toward foreign investors in Sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, it proposes a model that explains why foreign direct investment reinforces policy making along ethnic cleavages and predicts that attitudes to foreign investments are mainly formed by an individual's politically relevant ethnic group identity. The authors argue that their use of this model, using data from nineteen Sub-Saharan African countries, does not confirm the predictions of the Heckscher-Ohlin model.