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Public Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa: Legacies, Measurements, and Perceptions book cover

1st Edition

Public Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa Legacies, Measurements, and Perceptions

Edited By Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Sombo Muzata, Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka Copyright 2027
220 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book investigates public corruption in Africa and the attempts to curb it, moving from histories and legacies through to the challenging conditions in which anti-corruption agencies operate today. Contributors include leading scholars, as well as policymakers and civil society practitioners and workers in anti-corruption agencies, in order to build a picture which is both evidence-based... Read more

Part 1 Introduction

1. Public Corruption and Sub-Saharan Africa

Christopher Changwe Nshimbi

Part 2 Concept and theory on corruption

2. Conceptual considerations for legacies, measurements and perceptions of public corruption in Africa

Christopher Changwe Nshimbi

3. Decolonising Corruption Measurement Tool and Methodology in Africa: An Exploratory Study

Ramadhani Marijani and Alfred Sebahene

Part 3 History, legacies, narratives and curbing corruption

4. Corruption, Poverty and Development in Nigeria: The Nexus

Idris Ahmed Jamo

5. Institutionalization and Enforcement of Anti-Corruption Measures in Cameroon

Numvi Gwaibi

6. New Wine in an Old Bottle? Contending Corruption Through the General Inspectorate of Finances under President Felix Tshisekedi in Congo-Kinshasa

Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka

7. Regulation and Implementation of Anti-corruption Initiatives in Africa: Challenges in Administering Public Resources in Tanzania

Ramadhan Rajabu Sizya

8. Culture and Corruption in Africa: Can African Social Structures Facilitate the Enforcement of International Laws on Corruption?

Rasel Madaha

9. Not Enough! Citizens Perceptions of the Zambian Government’s Corruption Fight

Sombo Muzata

10. Perceptions on the Impact of the Corruption Perception Index on Measuring Corruption in Zimbabwe: A Critical Review

Onesmus Nyaude et al

Part 4 Conclusion

11. Charting the Way Forward Against Public Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa

Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka and Sombo Muzata

Biography

Christopher Changwe Nshimbi is Director of the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn) and Full Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria. He holds the SARChI (South African Research Chairs Initiative) Research Chair in the Political Economy of Migration in the SADC Region.

Sombo Muzata is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at James Madison University, USA. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her research is at the intersection of government and business. She is passionate about women, and her scholarship also includes women participation in politics and women in business. Sombo has a Research Associate Appointment in the Department of Political Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria.

Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka is a senior postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn), SARChI Chair in the Political Economy of Migration in the SADC Region, University of Pretoria, and adjunct professor in the School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, Woxsen University in India.  He researches and teaches alternative regionalism and regional integration, civil society and democracy, migration and diaspora, borders, Africa-EU relations, and anti-corruption and Development.

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