NEPAD: A blueprint for Africa's development in the 21st century.

The article features the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) to foster development and new impetus in Africa. It mentions that the country is challenged with the new global world economy when the regional economic and trade groupings are formed. In this regard, the Millennium Partnership for African Recovery Programme (MAP) and President Abdoulaye Wade's OMEGA Plan for Africa is elaborated to tackle the economic and social marginalization of the African continent.