Russia's Africa Move 

A smooth video, probably produced by a Russian media outlet but  omitting to mention obvious  problems African countries face beyond  partnership choices.

It'ss no good just re-organizing ownership of resources, or ditching "Western influence" in exchange for another. You have to actually develop productive capacity and make things well  and cheap enough to sell them or trade with others. Until African countries can do that they will merely be exchanging one dominance, let’s say France, for another. In this case Russia’s.

Secondly the relations between Africans countries and the so-called “West” are not similar. Britain has far different relationships with its former colonies, for example. North Africa is different again.  The video  makes it sound like Burkina Faso is a representative of the whole continent.

As for nuclear weapons, for what possible strategic purpose would any African country need them except to use against another African country? Who intends to invade any African country? Only Islamists, probably Africans themselves. Or neighbors over a border dispute of which Africa has several. Who does any of the 50+ countries intend to invade outside Africa or attack? Nobody.

Africa’s problems are not to do with so called “Western oiminance”" so much  but in moving from resource selling and peasant agriculture to creating the kid of internal governance, free of corruption and tribalism/ethnicism, to create societies of educated makers and doers in the modern sense. This is what every country, including those of Europe, has had to go through to become rich and powerful. African unity will remain a dream until a majority of it's sates are thriving and democratically run.