Africans: "we have resources" ... Oh yeah, well look at Singapore... No resources per capita ppp of $156,755.

Obviously, there's something wrong here.

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Yep. It is called unequal exchange.

Former official colonial masters work out unfair deals with local elites they put in power during colonialism to exploit their former official colonies through a local middle man that they pay well to sell out their people.