Examining the economic and political structures of global market forces in the new millennium, No Excuses challenges urban Africa to become proficient in the skills necessary to survive in an ever-changing market economy. Such skills will require academic proficiency over verbal rhetoric, as the new market forces care little for social arguments grounded in historical transgressions of the past era. The shifting design of market interest retains one major goal: expanding the base of the market venues. This, Washington argues, is what African nations must understand.