Paper short abstract:

The African Union’s NEPAD programme is directed at obliterating underdevelopment from Africa. This paper argues that in the execution of this objective, there are constraints to its actualization and also the potentiality of its use for Africa’s escape from underdevelopment and crises squalor.

Paper long abstract:

The formation of NAPAD by African leaders envisages its major agenda to be the eradication of bad governance, end to wars and the emancipation of Africa from poverty and non-sustainable growth development. Since its formation over a decade ago, discordant tones have been voiced out questioning its achievement so far, its potentials for accentuate development in Africa and the inherent constraints towards it low performance. The interrogation of these questions with a view to seeking answers to them and other issues in this context constitute the task of this discourse.