As part of the ongoing and necessary effort to create a UN that is
truly representative of all its members, this title attempts to
present the African perspective far more clearly and persuasively
than has previously been the case. The argument in the title can be
summed up in this excerpt: "Africa and the West have engaged in a
"dialogue of the deaf " at the UN and other international forums
since the continent's "lost decade" of the 1980s. The dialogue runs
as follows: Africans call for an annulment of what they see as an
unpayable external debt of $290 billion and note that they have
paid back $550 billion out of an initial debt of $540 billion
between 1970 and 2002; the West continues to roll over the debt and
offers periodic "debt relief" for an ailing African patient.
Africans call for the West to meet aid targets of 0.7 per cent of
Gross National Product (GNP) set as far back as 1970; the West
responds by continuing to maintain average annual aid levels of
about 0.3 per cent and to make persistent unmet promises to reach
the target of 0.7 per cent. Finally, Africans call on the rich
world to live up to its free trade principles by eliminating
agricultural subsidies that prevent the continent from growing out
of poverty; the West continues to maintain subsidies of over $311
billion that by 2001 had surpassed the entire economic strength of
sub-Saharan Africa." This title is a contribution to African
efforts to engage the UN to achieve these noble goals.
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