From the port city of Lagos, where 650,000 barrels of refined petroleum flow daily out of Aliko Dangote's Lekki refinery, a proposal has crossed into Cameroon — a vision of a storage terminal that would bring West African fuel closer to the landlocked hearts of Central Africa. The meeting between Dangote's executives and Cameroon's Prime Minister last Tuesday was not a signing but a sounding, a moment where ambition and possibility were placed on the table without yet becoming agreement. In the long human story of resource distribution across a continent shaped by geography and colonial border