I strongly urge everyone to read Amy Goodman's book called "The Exception to the Rulers".  I am half way through it and I have learned so much from it. The Third chapter is called "Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship". As I was reading it, I as trying to figure out a way to get by without a car. I always thought most of Africa's problems were due to diseases such as Malaria and Aids (which is a huge problem) but the corruption brought on by Oil and other companies is unbelievable. The Africans are really being taken advantage of. It is just mind numbing how countries in Africa with a huge amount of natural resources are not spreading the wealth amongst its people but being stripped by rich greedy people that are not even from Africa. These people should be in JAIL!!!  

I don't understand why any country in Africa should have to pay so much for importing fees. Why can't they buy oil from other countries in Africa that produce oil?