A new vision of cooperation between the West and Africa is sorely needed. The United States alone provides $13 billion of foreign assistance to Africa each year, mostly in nonrepayable grants. Other donors spend billions more on aid to Africa. Yet despite large amounts of assistance, the continent is poorer, hungrier, and more unstable. Simply spending money as a strategy has failed to help the countries of Africa get onto a path of sustainable economic growth. We must move away from traditional aid paradigms to trade and investment. It is what Africans want, and it is what works.