In spite of fast growing economies and notwithstanding the slavery
and colonial legacy, that is still taxing the continent, new faces and
forces of vulnerability and poverty haunt the Africa region. Conflicts,
corruption, disasters, poverty, and pandemics now threaten the region
with a calamity unforeseen even during the Great African Famine of the
1980s. While many proposals for remedial action have been formulated,
real commitment to positive and collaborative processes at continental
and inter organisational level has always been limited. These series of
lectures aim to enhance the hallowed objective of curbing human
insecurity, grand corruption and graft and stemming any the collateral
threats of counter-corruption measures to good governance. It considers
the relations between corruption, security, and development. The public
service suffers from the pressures of economies, no less than those of
politics. The realities prevailing in Africa render expectations of
Africa’s public service rather unreasonable. For most junior public
servants in Africa daily survival is nothing less than a minor miracle
because their wages lag behind the requirements of self-reproduction. At
a structural-political level, structural-cultural level and
epistemological level,, is the conflict of the legitimacy of the
received state, whose ‘public’ is nominal with the informal
kinship-based; legitimacy of salient values of indigenous African
cultures and those of the value systems of the modern state and the
antimonies, distortions and confusions of an epistemological stance,
which insistently privileges perceives Africa in the image of the West.
Divided into four parts, it addresses the sources of human insecurity,
the impact of corruption on development and discusses the redeeming
factors to stem that tide of corruption and achieve a just society.
See lecture
here or https://www.academia.edu/13949055/_Crises_of_Ethical_Governance_Part_II_Ethics_Corruption_and_Human_Security
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