Culture and the Nepad Project: Towards an Understanding of a Vital Missing Link
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Africa's search for appropriate models of development has a long history behind it. Interestingly, most of the
approaches to development failed even before they took off. Thus, when the New Partnersh ip for Africa's
Development (NEPAD) was initiated it was felt globally that, at last, workable answers may have been found for
the myriads of Africa's development challenges. NEPAD was formulated to comprehensively address the many
problems facing Africa. Beautiful and well articulated as the NEPAD document is, it is obvious that it omitted
culture as a vital component of the development process. In such areas as health, agriculture, law and
governance, conflict resolution, poverty alleviation and more, the originators of NEPAD failed to incorporate
culture as an important factor in driving development. It concludes on the note that unti l this is done NEPAD
will be another false start
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