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This paper examines the state of and driving forces of linkage formation in South Sahel Africa between multinational corporations and local industry in the natural resource extraction sector. The paper argues that while foreign multinational corporations and local enterprises by themselves will indeed produce linkages, the scope, depth and development impacts of linkages eventually depend on government intervention. It also says that the governments of resource-rich African countries are aware of this and increasingly, linkage promotion is becoming a key element in their industrialization strategies and relationships with foreign direct investment.