Paper short abstract:

The paper examines how, the African Diasporas, with a view to achieving sustainable development in Africa, can strengthen NEPAD

Paper long abstract:

Since the independence of most African States, they

had individually and collectively applied many

development strategies to ensure the development of

their various countries. However, the adoption of the

New Partnership for Africa's Development {NEPAD} is the

beginning of development wisdom for Africa in the sense

that the strategy is the formulation of Africans by

themselves instead of a recommendation from without

Africa. It is an all- embracing strategy aimed at

addressing holistically, the development problem of

Africa.

This paper examines how the African Diasporas, with a view to

achieving sustainable development in Africa can strengthen the programme. The paper notes however, that Africans are good at policy

formulation but grossly deficient at policy

implementation. The New Partnership for Africa's

Development, NEPAD, is no doubt, a well articulated plan of

action for the achievement of sustainable development

and poverty reduction in Africa, but the problem

lies in the implementation and sustenance of the noble

objectives.

NEPAD being a call for a new relationship of

partnership between Africa and the international

community, especially the highly industrialized

countries to overcome the development chasm that has

widened over centuries of unequal relations, needs the

support, assistance and commitment of the African

Diasporas.