If only the state would stop 'squeezing' agriculture through marketing boards and price distortions15, the supply-side response by agricultural producers would drive export-led growth. Subsequent changes in Africa’s exports show no significant increase in activities in which African countries ostensibly had comparative advantage. Indeed, after two decades of reforms, Africa's share of global non-oil exports fell to less than half what it was in the early 1980s [Ng and Yeats, 2000, quoted by Mkandawire, 2005). However, despite this upsurge, the African share of world exports still remains well below its earlier level.