Our government along with the UN is working on a plan to help those countries like Africa become wealthier. “In October, representatives from 193 governments will meet in Nagoya, Japan, to hopefully adopt a historic new international law that aims to ensure the world’s biological resources are used in a fair and sustainable way...”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8810627.stm
Africa has a greater potential to become wealthy than most imagine! I once told a group of men there that the ntions are blessed just that the people are screwed. You could take all of the Africans and GIVE them America, infrastruecure as it stands, and give America Africa and they would sand Africa up in short order while America was destroyed and turned into a Africa. The wealth there? and potential? Phenomenal! Its just that the people have to get past tribalism and the Zoie....the two greatest feudal detractions from success!