African elite perspectives: AU and NEPAD: a comparative study across seven African countries

Abstract

This paper contains findings of a survey that was conducted in South Africa, Nigeria, Senegal, Algeria, Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe in October and November 2002. The release of this publication is a milestone for both the Centre and African elite research in general. It allows us to analyse and make predictions regarding elite attitudes towards the two most influential bodies in African politics in the past decade (namely, the AU and NEPAD) as well as to draw important comparisons between African countries that represent a broad spectrum of African political and social climates.