ABSTRACT
The development challenges that face Africa, especially Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), are enormous and varied. Poverty, conflict and civil wars, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and the crisis of economic and social policy outcomes are often presented as emblematic of the region. Understanding the nature of the crisis and the dynamics that feed it has been the object of considerable contention. The divergent analyses are driven by ideological locations and paradigms. The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) is one such representation of the crisis – and how to overcome it – and is best understood as having a specific ideological location and driven by a specific development paradigm: neoliberalism.1
