The New Partnership for African Development as a Tool for African Development

Abstract

It is no gainsaying that one of the major challenges which African countries had upon independence was the ill-adaptation to African realities and the continent's development challenges. Most governance institutions and practices which the African countries had to make use of at independence were bequeaths from their colonial overlords. The realisation of this fact has led to an undying yearning by African countries to solve these problems collectively. Amongst many initiatives to collectively solve the mostly inherited problems, the New Partnership for African Development ( to be subsequently referred to as NEPAD is one and it basically recognizes the centrality of capacity development with a view to empowering Africans to achieve their goals as individual countries and to fulfill their creative potential. This work thus seeks to evaluate the coming into being of NEPAD cum whether it has been able to achieve its set out goals. NEPAD is thus considered in the light of the recent developments which have bedeviled the African continent and how it has been able to solve these problems.