"The New Partnership for Africa’s Development or Nepad has been enthusiastically pushed by a select number of countries in Africa, as well as by the G-8, as a means to advance the “African Renaissance”. Launched in Abuja, Nigeria, in October 2001, its strategic framework arose from the mandate granted to five African heads of state (Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa) by the then Organization of Afri- can Unity (OAU) to work out a development programme for Africa’s renewal." (Quoted from paper)