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The Blair Commission for Africa: Commentaries & Critiques
 

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Perspectives on African Leadership & Governance, NEPAD, the African Union, Etc. - Reports, Papers, Articles, Etc.

 


African Leaders on African Leadership & Governance

Perspectives on African Leadership, NEPAD, the African Union, Etc.

The Resource Curse: Governance - Transparency - Corruption - Natural Resource Management


"Making Leaders". The Economist. 24 July 2003. ALPN director, Dr. Michael Isimbabi's letter in response to The Economist's cover story, "Now for Africa" (03 July 2003). www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1940144


The African Leadership & Progress Brief                                                             

Leadership & Governance Capacity Building in African Countries: Why and How Well-Off and Accomplished Africans, Especially "Brain Drain" Africans, Should Proactively Take Charge of Fostering African Progress


"Africa is beyond bemoaning the past for its problems. The task of undoing that past is on the shoulders of African leaders themselves, with the support of those willing to join in a continental renewal. We have a new generation of leaders who know that Africa must take responsibility for its own destiny, that Africa will uplift itself only by its own efforts in partnership with those who wish her well." .......Nelson Mandela


The listing below is by no means complete and is continually expanded and updated. Suggestions of articles, papers, and other documents that merit inclusion in the list are welcome. Please send links or articles/documents to: editor@africanprogress.net.

 

Listings are largely in reverse chronological order.


The Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP)

 

The Africa Governance Inventory (AGI) Web Portal

 

Governance Links - UNDP


 

2005

 

Africa: A historic opportunity - G8 Communique on Africa. 8 July 2005

 

5th African Union Summit -- 28 June - 5 July 2005

 

Africa Economic Summit. A call to action. 1-3 June 2005, Cape Town, South Africa


Zimbabwe's Enabler: South Africa Falls Short As Monitor of Democracy. Sebastian Mallaby. Washington Post. April 4, 2005.

 

Zimbabwe Polls Free And Fair: SADC, African Union. The Herald (Harare). April 4, 2005.

 

Observers back Zimbabwe poll. BBC News. April 4, 2005.


Second Nigerian minister sacked. Nigeria's president sacks his housing minister, the second top official to go in his anti-corruption drive. BBC News. 4 April 2005

 

Balogun Faces N13bn 70-Count Charge • Osomo Sacked, Wabara Quits. ThisDay (Nigeria). 5 April 2005

 

Nigeria's graft fighter - Nigerian's war against corruption. BBC News. 28 March 2005. Nuhu Ribadu faces a mammoth task Nigeria has acquired a terrible worldwide reputation for corruption and financial crimes, including 419 scams. The BBC's Yusuf Mohammed profiles the man tasked with fighting the fraudsters.

 

Obasanjo's thankless task. BBC News. 7 October 2004

 

Anti-corruption lessons for Nigerians. 22 June, 2004. Sola Odunfa. BBC, Lagos. An anti-corruption curriculum is set to be introduced acoss all public schools and universities in Nigeria.


 

Our Common Interest: The Report of the Blair Commission for Africa. 2005

 

Striving for Good Governance in Africa - Synopsis of the African Governance Report 2005. Economic Commission for Africa


 

2004


December 2, 2004,  An Evening in Celebration of the Founders and Leaders of the New Economic Partnership for Africa's Development - NEPAD. The Leon H. Sullivan Foundation.

Leon H. Sullivan Foundation Celebrates New Partnership for Africa's Development. December 8, 2004. allAfrica.com

Sullivan Foundation honours President Obasanjo. Nigeriafirst.org. 06 December, 2004.

The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). Africa Media-Image Project News Brief. December 6, 2004


African Development Forum IV. Governance for a Progressing Africa. 11 - 15 October 2004

Report Shows African Governance Improving, Calls for Action Plan to Address Weaknesses. ECA Press Release 24/2004

Striving for Good Governance in Africa. Synopsis of the African Governance Report 2005.

Presentation of the AGR report

Audio: K.Y.Amoako, Executive Secretary of the ECA, speaks on the ADF process and why governance is so important to Africa's progress. 

Governance Heads Agenda at Fourth African Development Forum. Press Release. UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). 24 September 2004.


Second Meeting of the Commission for Africa. 7-8 October, 2004, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia


How Africa's leaders keep the people poor. Charles Onyango-Obbo. East African (Kenya). 11 October 2004. There's a Mbeki who's been making headlines in South Africa in recent weeks. And it's not President Thabo Mbeki, but his brother Moeletsi. The younger Mbeki, deputy president of South Africa's Institute of International Affairs, made world headlines when he said Africans were better off under colonialism. "The average African is poorer [today] than during the age of colonialism," he said, accusing Africa's post-colonial rulers of wasting their nations' resources.

 

Politics of Misery (Africa & the International Community). Jim Hoagland. Washington Post. 19 August 2004.


 

Economic Report on Africa 2004. UN Economic Commission for Africa.

 

Economic Report on Africa 2004 Published, Highlights Trade. UN Economic Commission for Africa. ECA Press Release 20/04, Addis Ababa, 29 September 2004. Trade liberalization alone will not boost growth and poverty reduction in Africa.

 

Public Sector Management Reforms in Africa. UN Economic Commission for Africa.

 

Assessing Regional Integration in Africa. UN Economic Commission for Africa. The report provides a comprehensive evaluation of the state of Africa's integration process, showing where efforts have succeeded or failed including why intra African trade remains low; and how lack of macro-economic policy convergence and insufficient infrastructures hamper integration. 14 July 2004.

 

Scoring African Leadership for Better Health.  UN Economic Commission for Africa.


 

Crafting the New Nigeria: Confronting the ChallengesRobert I.Rotberg, John Paden, Richard Sklar, Rotimi Suberu, Itse Sagay, Peter Lewis, Patrick Utomi, Darren Kew, Bronwen Manby, Daniel Smith, William Reno, and Mahmud Tukur. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. September 2004 (forthcoming).

New US Focus on AfricaRobert I. Rotberg. Boston Globe. 7 July 2004.

Africa: Side by Side...But in Starkly Different Worlds. Robert I. RotbergLA Times. 4 July 2004.

Strengthening African LeadershipRobert I. Rotberg. Foreign Affairs, July/August 2004.

African Leadership: The Next 10 Years. 14 April 2004.

 

KSG works to improve leadership: KSG's Rotberg helped facilitate African leadership effort. April 08, 2004. Alvin Powell. Harvard University Gazette

 

African Leadership Project - African Leadership Council. Leadership in Africa: The Mombasa Declaration. Mission Statement. Code of African Leadership . Capacity Building Curriculum. 20 March 2004. World Peace Foundation.



African Union Meetings 2004

Statement By His Excellency Joaquim Alberto Chissano President of the Republic of Mozambique and Chairperson of the African Union on the Occasion of the 3rd Au Summit

Acceptance Speech of His Excellency, President Olusegun Obasanjo, on His Election As The Chairman of the Assembly of the African Union - 6 July 2004

Address By Mr. Alpha Oumar Konare, Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union, on the Occasion of the Opening of the Third Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union


 

Seizing sovereignty in Africa. BBC News. 1 July 2004. Recent conflicts in Sudan, Liberia and Ivory Coast have ignited discussion about foreign intervention in failing states.

 

Should bad leaders be removed by force?  25 June 2004. BBC News Online Debate. Power in Iraq has been now formally handed over to an interim Iraqi government by the occupying coalition forces.

 

Public service key to NEPAD's success. 24 June 2004. The Secretary-General commented that the four pillars of NEPAD -- peace and security; democracy and good governance; regional co-operation and integration; and capacity-building -- parallel the Millennium Development Goals and the goals of the Commonwealth

 

Key to the Success of NEPAD is Public Service. 23 June 2004. Commonwealth News and Information Service.

 

How deep is corruption in Africa? 18 June 2004. BBC News Online Debate. In Nigeria, the international oil giant Shell admitted that it inadvertently fed conflict, poverty and corruption through its oil activities in the country.

 

What Africa Wants (Public Opinion Survey). 16 June 2004. Richard Dowden. The Guardian (UK). A third of Africans feel worse off this year than last and half feel the world is going in the wrong direction, according to a survey of nearly 8,000 Africans to be published today.

 

African Leaders Seek G8 Follow-Through. 10 June 2004. allafrica.com

 

G8 and African Leadership in the War on AIDS and Extreme Poverty. 07 June 2004. DATA (Debt-AIDS-Trade-Africa).

 

Building a Better Africa. 09 June 2004. Thabo Mbeki. The Washington Post.

 

Africa Launches Peer Review Test With Ghana.  04 June 2004. World Bank Press Review

 

Rating Plan Will Act As Sanction. 04 June 2004. Nasreen Seria. Business Day (South Africa). Business leaders said yesterday that a proposed rating system for African countries would act as a sanction for errant nations. This would force countries to toe the line in the absence of a formalised system under the New Partnership for African Development...  

 

Chissano Urges World to Note Positive Changes in Africa. Participants hear of success stories and action plans on closing day of Africa Economic Summit.  4 June 2004. World Economic Forum.

 

Africa Economic Summit 2004: Engaging Business in Development. Maputo, Mozambique 2-4 June 2004. Press Releases, Session Summaries, Etc.

 

What’s Holding Back Africa’s Growth?  World Economic Forum. 03 June 2004

 

African Leadership for Tomorrow. World Economic Forum. 03 June 2004

WEF Report Says Africa's Growth Was Worst Economic Tragedy Of 20th Century. World Bank Press Review. 03 June 2004.

Corrupters Should be Punished Too, Says South African Finance Minister: Companies involved in corruption should be "named and shamed". World Economic Forum. 03 June 2004.

Aspirations Over Africa's Future: African leaders at Africa Economic Summit 2004 express hopes for continent's future. World Economic Forum. 03 June 2004.

Africa Competitiveness Report 2004

Press Release: Africa Competitiveness Report 2004 - Identifying Problems and Offering Solutions to Africa's Economic Performance. Press Release. 2 June 2004. World Economic Forum. Index ranks 25 African nations on competitiveness.

 

Commission for Africa: "No Place to Hide" (Blair Commission). 03 June 2004. allAfrica.com

 

African 'No' to Stronger Peer Review. 03 June 2004. Business Day (South Africa). Rob Rose and Nasreen Seria. Call by business to rein in errant governments is dismissed by leaders. African leaders have dismissed calls for the continent's peer review mechanism to be given additional muscle to censure errant governments.

 

Media workshops to focus attention on NEPAD. 3 June 2004

 

A New Face For US Aid? (MCA). June 2004. eAfrica Journal / South African Institute of International Affairs

Freedom, Prosperity, and Security: The G8 Partnership with Africa: Sea Island 2004 and Beyond. May 2004. A Council on Foreign Relations Special Report. J. Brian Atwood and Robert S. Browne, Co-Chairs. Princeton N. Lyman, Project Director.

Infrastructure, food top NEPAD development concern. 24 May 2004. Xinhua News Agency

Companies 'shirking' their NEPAD obligations. 24 May 2004. Rob Rose. Business Day (South Africa)
 

Developing Africa's economy: Doing the sums on Africa. Jeffrey Sachs. The Economist. 20 May 2004. Small amounts spent on promoting Africa's economy can save billions and make the West more secure.

 

NEPAD Gets a Nudge: Maputo Meeting Refines Africa's Development Agenda. 20 May 2004. Michael van Winden. eAfrica - The Electronic Journal of Governance and Innovation. South African Institute of International Affairs NEPAD and Governance project. African and Western policymakers refine agenda for continent's development.

 

Progress Report on ECA/OECD “Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness”. Georges Ogboro. Economic Commission for Africa. 19 May 2004

 

Overview of Recent Economic and Social Conditions in Africa. Agustin Fosu. Economic Commission for Africa.18 May 2004.

 

Addressing Nigeria's Economic Problems and the Islamist Terrorist Threat. 19 May 2004. Ariel Cohen and Brett D. Schaefer. Heritage Foundation

 

Gaddafi urges African solutions. BBC News. 16 May 2004. The Libyan leader tells a regional summit in Mali that outside powers should not intervene in Africa's conflicts.

Africa: Deepening Regional Integration. 06 May 2004. Development Policy Management Forum

Africa Commission's uphill task. BBC News. 04 May 2004. Steve Schifferes.

What are the challenges facing Africa? BBC News. Forum/Opinions. 04 May 04 New plan tackles Africa problems. BBC News. 03 May 04

 

Kufuor is Blazing Trail for Africa - Tony Blair. April 28, 2004. allAfrica.com. Accra Mail (Accra).

 

A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa. Howard W. French. April 2004. (Knopf)

Review: Africa's Lost Decades - A Reporter's Lament. Akwe Amosu. April 23, 2004. allAfrica.com

 

Pan-African Parliament now a reality. Gumisai Mutume. Africa Recovery, April 2004.

 

US Promotes Development and Governance in Africa to Counter Terrorism. April 16 2004

For stable Africa, Zimbabwe needs a change of leadership. 02 April 2004. Todd Moss. Center for Global Development

Africa's Oil Tycoons. Daphne Eviatar. The Nation (USA). 12 April 2004. Western firms and government leaders, not the people, benefit from Angola's wealth.

Promoting Transparency in the African Oil Sector. March 2004. A Report of the CSIS Task Force on Rising U.S. Energy Stakes in Africa. Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, DC. Cochairs: David L. Goldwyn, J. Stephen Morrison. The CSIS Task Force on Rising U.S. Energy Stakes in Africa project.

Promoting Accountability and Transparency in Africa’s Oil Sector: Reform Efforts in Nigeria, Angola, and Sao Tomé and Principe - Conference Agenda. The CSIS Task Force on “Rising U.S. Energy Stakes in Africa”. Center for Strategic and International Studies. March 30, 2004

 

Nice Start, Moammar. Just a Couple of Other Things... 28 March 2004. Tom Donnelly and Vance Serchuk. The Washington Post. ...The latest addition to the Bush-Blair alliance in the war on terrorism is -- we're not making this up -- Col. Moammar Gaddafi.

Blair Hails New Libyan Relations. 25 March 2004. BBC News

Is Blair Right to Visit Libya? Opinions. BBC News

 

Rising to the Challenge of Good Governance in Liberia. 26 March 2004. Tamela Hultman.

 

Kenya Defers NEPAD Peer Review. 26 March 2004. James Macharia. The East African Standard (Kenya)

 

Time for Transparency: Coming Clean on Oil, Mining and Gas Revenues. 25 March 2004. Global Witness Limited (London). Revenue Transparency: A Priority for Good Governance and Energy Security

Is Blair's New Africa Commission Letting the Cat Out of the Bag? 24 March 2004. Chinua Akukwe. Business Day (South Africa).

West Africa's New Challenge: Making Peace Pay. 21 March 2004. The World Bank. An outbreak of peace gives West Africa’s 245 million people hope for a more prosperous future.

ECOWAS Leaders, World Bank Head Push Regional Approaches On Trade, Infrastructure and Peace

 

World Bank Tasks Obasanjo on Corruption. 19 March 2004. Reuben Yunana & Christopher Agabi. The Daily Trust (Nigeria)

Editorial: No Sovereignty Without Good Governance. March 2004. eAfrica Journal / South African Institute of International Affairs

What Can Stop Africa's Brain Drain? 19 March 2004. BBC News. Every year hundreds of African students and professionals leave the continent for studies or to seek greener pastures abroad.

 

African unity becomes reality. 18 March 2004. Mandy Rossouw
 

African Union Parliament Set Up. 18 March 2004. African parliamentarians will for the first time debate on continental-wide issues at a new Pan-African parliament.

 

African Women Launch New Leadership Institute. 17 March 2004.

 

Capacity Development: The Role of Regional Integration Groupings. UNCTAD meeting with regional integration organizations from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean to discuss training and capacity development strategies in the fields of international trade, investment and ICT for development. 15-19 March 2004.

 

Statement of Mr. K.Y. Amoako, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa at the Opening of the Fourth Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 15 March 2004.

 

Poverty and Inequality: A Question of Justice?
13 March 2004. The Economist. The toll of global poverty is a scandal. But deploring economic “injustice” is no answer

 

Global Economic Inequality: More or Less Equal? 13 March 2004. The Economist. Is economic inequality around the world getting better or worse?

 

Call for Unified African Voice on IMF. 12 March 2004. Helmo Preuss. Business Day (South Africa)

 

NEPAD: African Leaders Take Stock, Project Into Future. Charles Ozoemena. The Vanguard (Nigeria). 12 March 2004.