Painting Africa with the corruptor's brush
The reputations of such African countries as Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe and, increasingly, South Africa, amongst many others, continue to take a battering internationally through runaway corruption that governments seem incapable of confronting.
They are regularly listed by watchdog Transparency International as amongst the world's worst offenders. And even though this article was originally published in May last year, little appears to have changed in Africa and the story is still relevant.
Tragically for Africa, a constant stream of bad publicity around the worst offenders paints the entire region as corrupt and a high investment risk and diverts critically needed direct foreign investment to other developing areas of the globe. While Africans are undeniably culpable, “it takes two to make a bribe,” and that calls for a multifaceted examination of the issue, say an increasing number of researchers.
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