The New Partnership for African Development (Nepad), which many of Africa's leaders have pinned their hopes on for economic recovery, has been blasted by civil society as another form of colonialism and imperialism. Civil society leaders, meeting under the first ever Southern Africa Social Forum (SASF) in Zambia last week, charged that Nepad was a foreign owned initiative with "African elite kinship" from the powerful G8 countries and the main institutions responsible for corporate globalisation.