Deconstructing Corruption in Africa

Ina Kubbe is a professor at the University of Tel Aviv, at the School of Political International Relations, where she mainly researches and teaches on corruption, migration, gender politics, and conflict resolution. Ina is also a professor at the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) in Austria. She specialises in social science methodology and comparative research on empirical democracy, corruption and governance research. Ina has published several books, special issues, and articles in the field and is one of the founding members of the Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network (ICRN) as well as the Chair of the ECPR Standing Group on (Anti)Corruption and Integrity. Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai is a barrister and solicitor of the High Courts of Sierra Leone, and lecturer in the Department of Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Sierra Leone. He is deputy editor of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies’ Law Review, and founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law in the Faculty of Law, Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone. Over the last two decades, Abdulai has been a leading campaigner for the passing and implementation of freedom of information law in Sierra Leone and Africa as a civil society practitioner working for the Society for Democratic Initiatives. Abdulai was chair of the Governing Council of the African Freedom of Information Council, and is also chairperson of the Political Affairs Cluster of the African Union’s Economic Social and Cultural Council. Michael Johnston is a Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, USA. He retired from Colgate in 2015, but since 2012 has offered lectures and seminars at the International Anti-Corruption Academy near Vienna. He now lives in suburban Texas in the USA, and continues his research projects.

Introduction: The many faces of corruption in Africa Part 1: Corruption in the Political Sector 1. The Politics of State Capture in South Africa: A New Variant of Corruption? 2. Domains of Corruption in Nigeria: A Four-Part Taxonomy and Nigeria’s Anti-Corruption Paradox 3. Recounting How Electoral Corruption Manifests in Sierra Leone: Stories and Lessons from the Field 4. Understanding Political Corruption in Uganda through the Lens of Complexity Thinking and Historical Institutionalism 5. Unraveling the Complexities: Identifying Persistent Factors Hindering Anti-Corruption Efforts in Cameroon 6. Lobbying in Tunisia: Developing a Transparency Regime to Tackle Perceptions of Corruption Part 2: Corruption in the Economic and Social Sector 7. Corruption as an Investment Risk: A Case Study on Anti-corruption Strategies in Djibouti 8. Debunking the Demand-Driven Myth of Corruption: The Case of the Saint Louis Scandal in Mauritius 9. Charismatic Churches and Corruption in Ghana: Feeding the Beast? 10. The Causes and Consequences of Corruption in Zambia Conclusion: The Way Forward - Deconstructing the Many Faces of Corruption in Africa