This put me in opposition to the high levels of enthusiasm for NEPAD in official circles. For NEPAD had been sold as being some kind of “Marshall Plan” and was supposedly a programme “by Africans and for Africans”: And transformational change had been promised. The blame for his misfortune lay, he said, in the near-complete absence of public infrastructure in semi-arid Northern Kenya. The kind of infrastructure that he believed NEPAD would bring to even the small remote villages of that region. And it was while he was there that the village and its environs were hit by unseasonable torrential rains.

Source: The Star March 14, 2019 05:26 UTC