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Corruption and Anti-Corruption Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa
May 19, 2021 at 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: | Online |
The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and the Africa Study Group (ASG) are happy to announce a webinar for Wednesday May 19 from 11AM to 1PM (EST):
Corruption and Anti-Corruption Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Corruption is and remains a serious governance challenge and a threat to development in many Sub-Saharan African countries as it reduces states’ capacity to finance development programs. Several countries in Africa (and indeed elsewhere) have created specific anti-corruption institutions to tackle the problem. Nevertheless, despite the presence of those institutions, statistics on corruption worldwide show that African countries are the most corrupt in the world and the magnitude of the problem remains rampant. Our panelists will discuss why corruption is endemic in SSA, with a focus on South Africa and Uganda.
The webinar will be moderated by Dr. Decky Kipuka Kabongi, Fellow and Lecturer, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University.
Panelists
- Nirmala Dorasamy is Professor in the Department of Public Management and Economics at the Durban University of Technology (DUT, South Africa). Her PhD is in public administration. She teaches courses on governance and public administration at DUT as well as at the Public Administration Leadership and Management Academy (PALAMA), and the National Department of Defence in South Africa. Her research interests focus on ethics and public sector management in Africa. She has published numerous articles in academic journals and co-authored several books on governance and public management in the continent. Her most recent publication is “Public Procurement, Corruption, and the Crisis of Governance in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). She has received several awards at DUT including Top Senior Researcher, Top Woman Researcher, and Top Faculty Researcher.
- Sabiti Makara is Professor of Political Science & Public Administration at Makerere University in Kampala (Uganda). He conducts research on constitutionalism, democracy and electoral politics, decentralisation and local governance in Uganda and other countries of the African Great Lakes region. He has co-edited four books, contributed several chapters in books, and published articles in international journals. He holds a PhD degree in Political Studies from Wits University (South Africa).
- Andrew M. Mwenda is a journalist based in Kampala (Uganda), founder and Managing Director of The Independent Publications Limited, the publisher of The Independent News Magazine, one of East Africa’s leading current affairs newsmagazine. Andrew holds an undergraduate degree in journalism (Makerere University) and a masters’ degree in development studies (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London). He has been a visiting fellow at Yale University, University of Oxford’s Said School of Business, a John Knight Fellow at Stanford University, and a visiting fellow at the University of Leiden’s Africa Study Centre. He has published articles in academic journals on governance and corruption in Uganda as well as co-edited books. He is actively involved in public policy debates on governance in Uganda. He has deep knowledge of the security landscape in Uganda and the sub-region.