The best way to understand the Bush Administration's attitude toward Africa is to look at what took place during the G-8 summit in Canada recently. In everything leading up to the summit it was made clear to the world that the focus was to be on Africa. Leaders from the continent presented a plan to secure about $60 billion in aid to jumpstart an economic development plan. While cynics expected nothing from the G-8, the presidents of South Africa, Nigeria and Senegal were cautiously optimistic. Turns out that the cynics were correct. The G-8 promised no new financial assistance; packaged $6 billion in already-promised aid as if it were something new; and waved their fingers at the continent, insisting that Africans open up their economies to greater penetration from the West, as well as take greater action to fight corruption.