[Southack]

"Many countries' attempts to enter world markets are annexed by companies from the First World. We capitalize off of oil in war torn Nigeria, diamonds from conflicts in Sierra Leone... It's not that they'd rather just wallow in wars or foolish (and bloody) land redistribution, it's that we have a hold of the only resources they could use to get out of the rut."

Nonsense. Africa could keep all of its resources and it would still be a sh!thole.

Heck, they don't even want their own resources. They want Western products instead. The corrupt African despots all want to drive around in fancy Western SUV's, fly fancy Western aircraft, watch fancy Western TV and movies, as well as use fancy Western computers and software.

Oh gee, then after they notice that they've spent all of "their" money from selling their nautral resources, they start complaining that it's all the West's fault that Africans have polluted their own drinking water, confiscated productive farms in order to give them away to their own political cronies, let their Western-built roads, ports, and infrastructure crumble, and finally notice that their own people are diseased, starving, uneducated, and dying.

So we should give them more money, they beg. Besides, that new Gulfstream V would look great in the Royal hangar, er, I mean all of that money would sure feed a lot of our starving masses...

[Egregious Philbin]

I like your graphic. You seem to be taking the very few despots in Africa for all Africans. Furthermore, many of the despots you describe are not in attendance at the conference.

Multinational companies have been shown to aid and prop up those despots, such as the oil companies in Nigeria I mentioned earlier. Other companies operate in Africa without the threat of environmental regulation that they have in the First World, thereby expanding their profit margin at the expense of the residents of the Third World. Most "Western-built roads, ports, and infrastructure" were not done for their benefit either...