Corruption, Nepotism, and Anti-Bureaucratic Behaviors

Abstract

Nothing tells the story of the deplorable and failing state of the African nations more than the incidence of systemic and institutionalized corruption, nepotism, and anti-bureaucratic behaviors. The chapter is in seven parts: (1) understanding the universality of the primordial African social ethics; (2) the roots of corruption, nepotism, and anti-bureaucratic behaviors; (3) review of the interface of the African social ethics and the politics of the contemporary African nation-states; (4) paradox of the interface of the oral African governance institutions and the Weberian bureaucratic principles; (5) understanding the everyday lived political-economic realities and the dilemmas of corruption, nepotism, and anti-bureaucratic behaviors; (6) interrogating African social ethics in today’s global village and worldview of good governance; and (7) conclusion: Is decolonization, reorientation, privatization, and computerization the way forward?.