John Gapper’s article in the FT reminds us that colonization helped Africa in some ways, but that Hong Kong-style economic zones such as the British created could provide the best possibility for sustainable growth across Africa. On the other side of is Dambisa Moyo’s book, Dead Aid. This Zambian-born ex-Goldman Sachs banker argues Western investment has failed for 60 years. Instead, she says Chinese investment, micro-financing initiatives, and milestones such as Seacom’s broadband undersea cabling investment across all of eastern Africa, are its future. This conflict of extremes is best expressed in the duplicity of Yinka Shonibare’s new exhibition, Different Worlds. Yinka shows how dress expresses power, and how dominance is viewed from both sides. Throughout history, Africa has been a land of extremes, subjugated by more taking than giving. Ideon asks if China’s resource quest could help a young, dynamic African continent of 1 billion people with fewer personal goods consume at a higher rate than China’s ever-modernizing infrastructure for 1.3 billion people?