ABSTRACT
Since around 2000, there has been greater engagement between Africa and the Global North, reflected in various initiatives largely focused on the issue of poverty with a strong emphasis on ‘good governance’ (Cargill, 2011). With this, conditionalities have been applied, often in a fairly static and dogmatic fashion – a continuation of a long-standing pattern. This has often been bitterly resented by African elites, even though Africa’s own NEPAD project placed standard liberal definitions of governance at the centre of its project (see Taylor, 2005).
