ABSTRACT
In light of Africa’s all too apparent socio-economic backlogs and persistent poverty (see Chapter 2), relative to other continents, strategies and policies designed to promote ‘development’ have been hallmarks of the last few decades (Seck and Busari, 2009). It is apparent that while Africa has been performing relatively better economically in the first years of the twenty-first century than it did in the twentieth, growth is occurring from a very low base and only limited success has been achieved in raising overall welfare levels. In addition, there are very real concerns that the Millennium Development Goals are unlikely to be achieved within the set time-frames in the continent.
