Hello... African States are not poor. They are resources rich but was colonised by the evil BE and evil Europeans who ripped them off....Bric is a collection of poor countries. Just like communist of olden days of china, they bended the poor and uneducated together. They became a force to be reckoned the because of large amounts of poor. They lie and wash the brains of these poor.
So after a few decades all over, it all happening again.
Over the past 20 years China help them build roads, trains, schools, housing and education... and they are not poor anymore...
And now they kicked out France and take control of their resources....