Nigeria is a diverse country struggling to modernize after centuries of corruption, imperialism, tribalism and war. It educates its young people better than our urban schools on less money, has more cultural agreement within its range of financial success and struggles with bringing really backward people into a modern society. In short, its like we were 100 years ago.
It does not have the uniform, non-diverse victim/benefit culture that marks the American urban culture where young people kill one another at a rate that mimics a war zone. Its sure as Hell-Fire not perfect, but it shows a commonality with us as whites more than it shows a differentiation.
Where Africa is similar you will also find the progressive -socialist service state (South Africa, Zimbabwe, etc) where the need for dependent populations results in the same kind of group/cultural control.
100 years ago if a model t driver ran over a chicken in the road, the townsfolk would not act and believe the proper thing to do would be to murder all those in the car.