Overcoming the Corruption Conundrum in Africa : A Socio-Legal Perspective.
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- 9781527545465
- 364.1/323/096
- JQ1875.A55 .M869 2020
Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Cases -- List of Instruments -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Forms of corruption -- Grand corruption -- Petty, bureaucratic corruption or survival corruption -- Legislative corruption -- Other forms of corruption -- Bribery -- Misappropriation or embezzlement of public funds or property -- Fraud -- Money laundering -- Extortion -- Theft -- Nepotism and favouritism -- Collusion -- Abuse of discretion -- Clientelism -- Patronage -- Political corruption -- Corruption in Africa: A snapshot of the sociological landscape -- Challenges in defining corruption -- Summary -- Chapter Four -- Gauging the impact of corruption on Africa -- The fundamental impact of corruption on African societies -- Democracy -- Human rights -- The rule of law -- The judiciary -- Separation of powers -- Corruption and state official criminal liability -- Summary -- Chapter Five -- International instruments against corruption -- The United Nations system -- African Union Instruments against Corruption -- Sub-regional instruments against corruption -- Summary -- Chapter Six -- Defining political will -- Indicators of political will -- A synoptic analysis of the different kinds of political will -- Active political will -- Partial political will -- Lack of political will -- Transnational political will -- The shifting political will -- Understanding political will through different anti-corruption efforts -- Prevention -- Promotion -- Culture and religion -- Education -- Protection of protected disclosures or whistle-blowers -- Summary -- Chapter Seven -- Foreign government involvement in the fight against corruption in Africa -- The perpetration of corruption and its ramifications for different sections of society.
The undermining of financial institutions and policies -- The obligation/duty to render assistance to victim states -- The United Nations Convention against Corruption -- The OECD Anti-Bribery Convention -- The African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption -- The ECOWAS Protocol on the Fight against Corruption -- The ECOWAS Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters -- The SADC Protocol on MLA in criminal matters -- Assistance strategies -- Recovery of stolen assets or public funds -- Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative -- Selected cases of foreign government assistance to African countries -- Nigeria and the United Kingdom: the case of James Ibori -- France and Equatorial Guinea -- Switzerland and Nigeria -- Egypt -- Nigeria -- The United Kingdom and Uganda -- The United Kingdom and Nigeria -- The United Kingdom and Zambia -- Different ways of rendering foreign assistance to African countries -- Conclusion of bilateral and multilateral agreements on foreign assistance regarding combating corruption -- Enactment of national laws regulating the transfer of funds -- Monitoring of banking activities conducted by intra-state banks -- Establishing intergovernmental networks aimed at sharing information -- Monitoring and regulating international credit transfers -- Initiation process for the recovery of assets and funds -- Development and enactment of national laws on the freezing, seizure and confiscation of stolen funds and assets -- Observation and implementation of the recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force -- Suppression of bank secrecy laws -- Exercise of soft co-optive power by foreign governments -- Summary -- Chapter Eight -- Bibliography -- Index.
This book adopts a holistic approach to identifying what could be done to surmount the corruption conundrum in the African continent. It acknowledges the objective reality of corruption in Africa, and identifies primary solutions to the issue. The volume takes a socio-legal approach in order to reveal the nature and extent of corruption, and suggests that solutions can be found simply by interrogating how society reacts to it. In conjunction with this, the book identifies and critiques constraints in the formation of a definitive definition of corruption. As shown here, although it is critical for African states to develop anti-corruption strategies, the solution to the problem requires an understanding of the significance of political will, and how the lack thereof has led to the endurance of corruption in Africa.
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