The New Partnership for Africa’s Development
was adopted at the 37th Summit of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in Lusaka
in 2001.Quoting one of the initiators and
former President of Nigeria, His Excellency
OlusegunObasanjo, “NEPAD came as a child
of circumstance and a child of necessity‘’ in a
period when the continent was depicted as a
‘’hopeless continent’’.