Thank you so much for taking your time and reading some of my thoughts about the African situation, I appreciate your effort. However, we must realize that any policy effort whether political, economic or social, for most part, is elite driven. Historically, the elite are the one who take up the initiative and articulate it and then the common people in whose name most people fight will follow latter. And the question of elite’s manipulation of the common man is not limited only to Africa, the recent war in Iraq was an elite project in the States and the Blair sold it to the UK , and the rest is history. You’re right that in part Nepad was meant to attract the funding from the West. However, there are other mechanisms through which Nepad is holding some of these countries accountable, like the Peer Review Mechanism, a sort of “credit rating” if you will. If the article was read in whole I was not a friend of Nepad, ‘ntangling Africa’s economy within the global economy has been blamed as the cause of Africa’s under-development. Therefore NEPAD, by posturing towards globalization, in its current asymmetrical set up, where the advantage is skewed in favour of the West, will at best be counter-productive. This is a road well travelled, and its repercussion is the current status of Africa’s development”. Finally, the conclusion at the end is the conclusion for the three parts series of the articles and not only the Nepad part.
Thank you.