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Article: Africa needs new models.(to rise from poverty )(Editorial)
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- African Business
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Recently, London has been awash with conferences and seminars on Africa's development. The approaching first anniversary of the British inspired Africa Commission report seems to have galvanised the city's academic and development circles into fresh bouts of discussions.
I was invited to participate in a few of these events and was particularly keen to address younger audiences such as students at the famous London School of Economics. Although many of my fellow panellists were august experts in economics, development and Africa, I felt that what they had to say had been heard so many times before, I wondered what benefit the audience might gain from these ...