Africa's Season of Hope: The Dawn of a New Africa-Asia Partnership

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© 2005 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore AFRICA’S SEASON OF HOPE The Dawn of a New Africa-Asia Partnership © 2005 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) was established as an autonomous organization in 1968. It is a regional centre dedicated to the study of socio-political, security, and economic trends and developments in Southeast Asia and its wider geostrategic and economic environment. The Institute’s research programmes are the Regional Economic Studies (RES, including ASEAN and APEC), Regional Strategic and Political Studies (RSPS), and Regional Social and Cultural Studies (RSCS). ISEAS Publications, an established academic press, has issued more than 1,000 books and journals. It is the largest scholarly publisher of research about SoutheastAsia from within the region. ISEAS Publications works with many other academic and trade publishers and distributors to disseminate important research and analyses from and about Southeast Asia to the rest of the world. © 2005 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore Singapore Lecture 21 April 2005 AFRICA’S SEASON OF HOPE The Dawn of a New Africa-Asia Partnership Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore © 2005 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore Published in Singapore in 2005 by ISEAS Publications Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Pasir Panjang Singapore 119614 E-mail: publish@iseas.edu.sg Website: © 2005 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore ISEAS Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Mbeki, Thabo Mvuyelwa. Africa’s season of hope : the dawn of a new Africa-Asia partnership. (Singapore lecture series ; 26) 1. Africa—Politics and government—19602 . New Partnership for Africa’s Development. 3. Africa—Economic policy. 4. Africa—Foreign economic relations. I. Title II. Series DS501 I597 no. 26 2005 ISBN 981-230-334-0 ISSN 0129-1912 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying , recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Typeset by International Typesetters Pte. Ltd. Printed in Singapore by Photoplates Pte. Ltd. ...