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African Development and Government: Is Nepad Already Passé

Three years after the launch of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), it is fair to ponder whether the programme is still worth taking seriously.1 The origins of NEPAD can be found in South African president Thabo Mbeki’s late 1990s determination to establish an ‘African Renaissance’. Poignant poetics were gradually infused with content, initially in the secretive Millennium Africa Recovery Plan, whose powerpoint skeleton was unveiled during 2000: to Bill Clinton in May, the Okinawa G-8 meeting in July, the United Nations Millennium Summit in September, and a subsequent European Union gathering in Portugal. The skeleton was fleshed out in November 2000 with the assistance of several economists and was immediately ratified during a special South African visit by World Bank president James Wolfensohn. By this stage, Mbeki managed to sign on as partners two additional figures from the crucial North and West of the continent: Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Olusegun Obasanjo from Nigeria. But these allies came under mass protests and oversaw various civil, military, religious and ethnic disturbances at home, diminishing their utility as model African leaders.