Lavrov said Africa is now experiencing a second awakening - economically African countries are still largely dependent on their former metropolises and understand this, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday. "Now that Africa is freed from colonialism and when the wave of decolonization ended political dependence in the 1960s, Africans, in my opinion, are experiencing a second awakening, already an economic awakening," he said at a meeting with the editors-in-chief of the African media in Moscow.