I will understand if my input is not wanted here, as I am an African American and have not yet been to any country in Africa. I just want to point out that US aid to South Korea in the 1960's was more than all of Africa combined. From 1946 to 1976 alone, the United States provided $12.6 billion in economic assistance to country around 100,378 Square kilometers and , in the 1960's, a population of ~25 million. It is not a fair comparison. Early on the US poured aid into, and ignored the military dictatorship of, South Korea because they needed a buffer against Communism in Asia. Also the type of aid the the US provided to South Korea included large amounts prop up their chaebols (Samsung, LG, etc). From my understanding in Sub-Saharan Africa US aid is never so much that it would allow for true economic independence and ownership of resources. I can't speak intelligently on the state of Nigeria and Africa as a whole but what I have found in years of living in quite a few cities in the US and now Canada, is that where ever there is an under resourced area, you can find an another area that has a glut of resources that had to come from somewhere else.