Andrew Rugasira, founder and CEO of Good African coffee, argued passionately, and persuasively, that as aid to Africa has increased, GDP in Africa has declined. The answer is not aid ("handouts," as he calls them) but trade–empowering Africans by buying their products. To learn more, read his paper "Africa Needs Trade, Not Aid: A Case for a New Paradigm" at www.goodafrican.com