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07/27/2004:

"Africa Needs a Positive Identity, Says Graca"

Africa must move fast to acquire a more positive identity, an official of New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) said yesterday.

Dr Graca Machel, the chairperson of African Peer Review Mechanism, a Nepad organisation, said in Nairobi that the current identity of Africa as a continent of disease, poverty, corruption and illiteracy must end.

Full Article : allafrica.com