Africa's plan to save itself

摘要

Trying to construct a set of goals and policies for Africa that both George Bush and Robert Mugabe would sign up to is nearly impossible. But this week a team of drafters was closeted in a hotel in South Africa, attempting to incorporate some last-minute comments from African governments in order to make the Millennium Action Plan (MAP) for African recovery acceptable to as many African leaders as possible. But if the plan looks like an African-begging-bowl held out to the rest of the world, it will be ignored.