African Oil

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/01/12_400.html

This article about big oil in small african country could have been written 80 years ago with the abuses of colonial powers controlling african natural resources. This is how it is done and few see the wrong. To me a lot like - King Leopold's Ghost - where the King of Belgium himself owend Belgium and wanted riches - natives who failed to bring back enough raw rubber had there hands chopped off. Millions died and only a British shipping clerk in Belgium noticed - the ships going to Congo only carrried guns and ammunition - no rich trade. Where was the wealth of the Congo going if it did improve the lot of the Congolese? This essay is a modern version of the same tale with different wrongs and different "kings" - the oil companies and a dictator of a small country - Equitorial Guina(sp?)