If Mr Kabila's government were less inept and corrupt, so they imply, the whole continent could benefit from Congo's bounteous water, land and minerals.
Pemex, the national oil and gas monopoly, has neither the funds nor the expertise to take advantage of the shale and deepwater deposits that have proved so bounteous across the border in the United States.
His booming voice, practised oratory and bounteous promises send a hush through the crowd.
Sensing the political risk, Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, has implored the unions not to strike.But even if the party can distance itself from union militancy, it will be harder to dispel the broader notion that Labour only represents public-sector voters: the spending splurge that the party oversaw in office is often blamed for those workers' bounteous pay and perks.
Britain does not have a technology-focused venture-capital industry anything like as bounteous as that which serves Silicon Valley.
Its advertisements are less slick and its free gifts less bounteous than those of the PRI; a source close to the party says that there have been some weeks when the campaign has not met its payroll.
But in the past decade production in its most bounteous shallow-water field, Cantarell, has plummeted from over 2m barrels a day to less than 400,000, and it has struggled to find new reserves to compensate.Oil and gas production in America has soared thanks to shale deposits, some of which extend into Mexico but which Pemex has failed to develop.
Yet some people worry that it could slip back into its corrupt and violent ways once the oil begins to flow: witness other countries in the region, such as huge Nigeria and tiny Equatorial Guinea, where cliques of "big men" have stolen stacks of bounteous oil money while most of the people have been left to live in poverty.
Asia's rising demand for food has pushed up the price of exports of soyabeans and other products from the bounteous pampas in relation to the price of the country's imports.
But in the interests of ending a war that has crippled an otherwise beautiful and bounteous country, both sides will have to make some difficult sacrifices.Talking to terrorists is never palatable.
After all, even his wiser decisions as chancellor (such as using the bounteous proceeds of a mobile-phone network auction in 2000 to pay down national debt, which can now rise more safely) are lost in the haze of recrimination.
