Time for Africa to ditch the West?

Africa is gearing for an economic take-off to an emerging economy status. To get there it must shed-off unnecessary baggage of laggards. These include trade and development partners in the West. A number of recent reports on African economy stop short of telling Africa to dump the West.
http://eaers.blogspot.com/2012/05/time-for-africa-to-ditch-west.html