Globalization, development and governance

Africa’s last ‘Last Chance’? Reflections on the Commission for Africa and the Millennium Project Reports

It will only have escaped the attention of died-in-the-grain recluses that Africa has recently been firmly placed on the international agenda in a way that was perhaps unthinkable a couple of years ago. Music concerts, television documentaries and, above all, political meetings have all been carried out recently in support of African ‘development’.