An Alternative for Africa

Issue Date October 1994
Volume 5
Issue 4
Page Numbers 119-32
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About the Author

Adebayo Adedeji is executive director of the African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies (ACDESS) in Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria. He founded ACDESS in 1991 after 16 years of service in the United Nations, from which he retired as an undersecretary-general and executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa. From 1971 to 1975, he was Nigeria’s federal minister for economic development and reconstruction.

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