Africa: NEPAD is Under Fire From African Experts

As President Thabo Mbeki and other African leaders geared up yesterday to seek support from the Group of Eight (G-8) for the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad), a group of African scholars and experts released their most critical appraisal of Nepad yet.

The group, which met in Pretoria recently and was addressed by Mbeki, panned several aspects of the blueprint for Africa's economic recovery, referring to Mbeki and members of Nepad's steering committee as "a small group of political elites" and saying the nature of Nepad would perpetuate Africa's subjugation.

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