"and that is western Europe's and the US's clseod borders to African trade."Even here, there's room to be realistic, or cautious if you will.Whats the point of buying from Africa if the quality isn't there, again, that's just low quality charity. Or buying stuff from the local warlord desperately needed by his people.Someone once worked out that over a trillion dollars has been spent on African aid.. to little effect. We might be better to send in some troops, wipe out the war lords and dictators, take the place over and run it the way the colonisers did. Then we could get some genetically modified rice going, stop a million people per year from going blind and feed some mouths.Africa is much worse now than when the Brits and others were running the place. Decolonisation and lack of will is the first problem, untagged aid is way up there and so is the lack of DDT.Priorities please.JC