Africa’s NEPAD Vision: Ambiguities, Contradictions and the Crisis of Internalizing External Models of Development

Abstract

This chapter examined the NEPAD development document adopted by African leaders in the early 2000s against the background of dominant development theories, and argued that notwithstanding the good intentions, the NEPAD vision is not only an attempt to internalize and legitimate western epistemological versions of what constitutes development, but fraught with series of gaps that questions the commitment of the framework to inclusive governance