Corruption, Sustainable Development and Security Challenges in Africa

Kempe Ronald Hope, Sr. is a Director at Development Practice International (DPI), Ontario, Canada. He was formerly a senior official with the United Nations; a Program Manager at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID); and variously a Professor of Economics, Development Management, and African Studies at the University of North Carolina (Charlotte); the Atlanta University Center; the University of Botswana (where he was also the Founding Director of the Center of Specialization in Public Administration and Management [CESPAM]); and a Fulbright Professor of Economics at the University of the West Indies (Jamaica campus). He has also advised several governments on anti-corruption and development policy and management reforms. The views he expresses here are private and do not necessarily represent the views of DPI or any other organization to which he is currently or was formerly affiliated. His most recent books are Corruption and Governance in Africa: Swaziland (now Eswatini), Kenya, Nigeria (Palgrave Macmillan/Springer, 2017); Police Corruption and Police Reforms in Developing Societies (CRC Press/Taylor and Francis, 2016); and The Political Economy of Development in Kenya (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013).

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Africa at the Crossroads: Moonwalking in Slow Motion.- Chapter 3. Channels of Corruption in Africa: an Analytical Review and Assessment of Trends in Economic and Financial Crimes.- Chapter 4. Revisiting the Corruption and Sustainable Development Nexus in Africa.- Chapter 5. Police Corruption and Its Security Challenges in Africa: Kenya as a Country Case Study.- Chapter 6. Peace, Justice and Inclusive Institutions: Overcoming Challenges to the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 16 in Africa and Beyond.- Chapter 7. Reducing Corruption and Bribery in Africa as a Target of the Sustainable Development Goals: Applying Indicators for Assessing Performance.- Chapter 8. Civilian Oversight for Democratic Policing and Its Challenges: Overcoming Obstacles for Improved Police Accountability and Better Security in Africa and Beyond.