Table of Contents

Introduction
Unique Challenges
The pathfinders
"We are the ones who have turned this country into a desert"
Facing the challenges: Economic, agricultural, and structural
The New Africa on the Move
Peasant power: Village groups in the making
From Aid to partnership
A new future in the making
"M'bathakins" (Let's pull together)
Creating opportunity--or when ants carry elephants
Son and daughter mills: The African farmer as inventor
"Nothing is impossible" or the end of hunger by the year 2000
Achilles' heel
Towards another development
Conclusion
Post scriptum: Learning from Africa
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

PIERRE PRADERVAND has been active in the field of development for a quarter century as a researcher, program administrator, publisher and co-editor of Famille et Development, an African grass roots development magazine. He is presently working in the field of global education in his home country, Switzerland.