Resolving the African Development Sclerosis: Two Strategies, No Future

Abstract

At independence, African countries adopted various development strategies.Unable to generate the desired development, African countries embracedregional and economic integration as the alternative approach and adoptedthe Lagos Plan of Action in 1980. Due to its inherent contradictions andWestern opposition it was abandoned. In 2001, Afrocrats crafted the NewPartnership for African Development in tune with the predominant neoliberalideology. This discourse critically compares the Lagos Plan andNEPAD. It argues that the adoption of NEPAD is revisionist, anabandonment of the Lagos Plan crafted in the womb of the dependencyparadigm for the prescriptions of the initially rejected Bretton WoodsInstitutions’ sponsored Berg Report wrapped in the garment of themodernization ideology. The discourse concludes that in the NEPADframework exist fundamental contradictions similar to those that frustratedthe Lagos Plan.

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