The study investigates the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). Although the initiative is quite new, many contributions have been made and many articles written about it. NEPAD is the latest initiative aimed at improving economic growth and development in Africa.
This thesis begins with the assumption that the theory of academic dependency provides an
adequate framework within which the relationship between social science communities in the
North and South can be understood. Present problems of social scientists in the South have
very often been attributed to this dependence and it has been concluded that academic
Afrocentricity is a paradigm based on the idea that African people should reassert
a sense of agency in order to achieve sanity. During the l960s a group of African
American intellectuals in the newly-formed Black Studies departments at universities
began to formulate novel ways of analyzing information. In some cases, these new
