Dear Readers,
Following in the footsteps of the extremely successful inaugural launch, we are proud and thrilled to present to you the Fall 2006 issue of the Africa Policy Journal (APJ). Deciding to produce both a fall and spring issue has been a challenge but, nonetheless, one we hope that you, as a reader, find worthwhile and that this issue will leave you in anticipation for our upcoming spring content. We are humbled by the overwhelmingly positive response to the APJ, a response which bears testament to the momentum for Africa’s development and the need for sound policies to continually emerge. “Sound” does not necessarily mean “conventional.” In that respect, our role is to promote the most relevant, informed and analytically rigorous ideas, with a vision for better policymaking in Africa.

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Nothing epitomizes the momentum of and for Africa more than this journal, produced with dedication and sacrifice by volunteer students—Africans and non-Africans alike—passionately committed to the development of the continent. We thank the contributors without whom there will be no journal. We also thank our Kennedy School student journal publishers for their prompt responses to all our questions, and our faculty advisory board for continuing to direct us. Special thanks to Sam Unom for his vision in creating the journal and his continued financial and moral support, and to the staff of the first volume for executing the vision. Finally, thank you continuing to read the journal.

It is indeed a new day and it is Africa’s to seize.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Kobina Aidoo & Ms. Heidy Servin-Baez
Co-chief Editors