The reluctant scientist
The late Tanzanian president, John Pombe Magufuli, was initially lauded for his no-nonsense approach to corruption. But the cracks began to appear within months of his presidency.
The late Tanzanian president, John Pombe Magufuli, was initially lauded for his no-nonsense approach to corruption. But the cracks began to appear within months of his presidency.
Corruption is South Africa’s pandemic—one that has been disenfranchising and killing people long before our transition to democracy.
Ideas for how to pressure Uganda's "M-Pigs" to become elected representatives who actually serve in the public interest.
Could the enduring effects of #EndSARS be the beginning of a broad alliance against an irresponsible political elite that has shirked all pretensions of being responsible to the people?
Governments need funds for stimulus packages and aid to address COVID-19. But corporate tax avoidance and tax breaks for aid in African countries is undermining emergency responses.
As countries expand investment in decentralized renewable energy, its worth keeping an eye on who's profiting.
South Africans are learning the hard way that corruption cannot simply be solved through technical fixes and increasing “accountability” through locking the villains up.
This week on AIAC: Wangui Kimari and Benjamin Fogel on the politics of anti-corruption, and then the particular case of Tanzania with Sabatho Nyamsenda and Elisa Greco. Subscribe to our Patreon for the podcast archive.
The recent suspension of Nigeria’s anti-corruption tsar provides an opportunity to re-assess the country's anti-corruption approach.
Rehad Desai's film celebrates the investigative journalists who expose the corruption of Zuma's regime in South Africa, comes with a depressing note: To date, no one has gone to jail.
The art world largely Isabel dos Santos’s husband despite him being caught up in large scale corruption.
The erratic electricity supply in Nigeria is a metaphor for life there.
How the highly profitable rural-based sugar industry failed the people of Swaziland and enriched the King and multinational corporations.
The rise of populism across the US and Western Europe has been well documented, but it is not only an American or European issue. The case of Lesotho.
Anticorruption activist, Chuma Nwokolo, reflects on the pervasive nature of official corruption in Nigeria.
Where did UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, get the idea Nigeria and Afghanistan were the most corrupt countries worldwide and the UK was squeaky clean?
Two weeks ago, on October 6th, Nigeria’s former oil minister, Diezani Allison-Madueke, was arrested in London
Carnival in Rio de Janeiro as a site for the politics of influence by one of Africa's most brutal dictatorships.
For a while now we’ve been toying with the idea of starting a Tumblr called “Shit
Does the arrest of Karim Wade, the former president's son, mean “the time when one could pillage public goods is over” in Senegal?