RE:RE:Elephants,pipelines,railroads and the Chinese Right you are TurnToTheRight - some major senior players will have to be involved and probably sooner than later.
My hope is that it won't be the Chinese - they seem to have their fingers in all the "pies" that are being "baked" in Africa.
But the good news is that Africans are learning to be wary of the generous so called "benefactors" as they find out that the piper has to be paid eventually.
Example: the People's Liberation Army (really not for the people, not for liberation, and not a real army) comes in with the promise of spending money to build up the local economies but brings their own people, materials, equipment and everything including the kitchen sinks and saddles their "clients" with massive debt and payments for decades. They have learned very well from the former Western colonizers!