A second “Decade for Education in Africa” is to be launched in 2006 to push forward the momentum of Education for All on the continent. “I hope that this Decade will allow us to make considerable progress in education, especially pan-African education,” says Alpha Oumar Konaré, Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union. As a prelude to this Decade, education and culture were high on the agenda for the African Heads of State participating in the 6th African Union Summit in Khartoum, Sudan on 23-24 January.