Just example how Western Neocolonialism looks like in Africa.
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/06/nigeria-the-cost-of-oil/100082/
Nigeria is very rich country with huge amount of recurses (gas, oil, uran ) and huge populace (more than in Russia), but in difference with Russia they can't protect yourself from First worlds predators. For fix this situation we give to them nuclear weapon soon (as we do for Iran and North Korea), and everything must be changed in near future.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201206290630.html