For hundreds of years the west have dominated world trade and become filthy rich off of the mineral wealth, artifacts and sweat of Africans. This was facilitated by bribes, payoffs, blackmail and many forms of corruption and professional malpractice.
Now African leaders are looking inwards and coming to the realisation that if they work together with a full appreciation of their combined resources including western education, they could be a force to reckon with thereby flipping the existing world order on his metaphorical head.