ARTICLE: Trade-Offs: Is China the key to Africa's development?, By Eliza Barclay, Slate, March 6, 2008

As historyguy99 effectively says, a glass-half-full appreciation of China's entry into Tanzania's market. The key thing in the end, however, is not just the spin-off activities from China's penetration but rather China's future efforts to integrate Tanzania into China's global production chains--admittedly at the bottom, but we all gotta start somewhere.