"Blair not Africa's messiah"

THE Tony Blair-initiated Africa Commission can best be described as one of the many ploys by the West to undermine existing homegrown forums that are better placed to bring solutions to problems in Africa.

Several delegates to the just-ended two-day meeting for the Africa Commission held in Ethiopia concurred that the Africa Commission, barely a year-old, was unlikely to come to any radical conclusions about how the continent can escape from problems that it currently faces.

In light of the problems facing Africa and the range of previous political declarations by African governments against existing and still unfulfilled promises by industrialised countries, millions of people are sceptical over the need for, and usefulness of, the commission.

The scepticism is aggravated by the way the United Kingdom and European Union have ignored African governments in the World Trade Organisation and pushed for policies that undermine the economies of developing countries.

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