Right to Development and Illicit Financial Flows from Africa

Gerard Emmanuel Kamdem Kamga is senior lecturer and coordinator at the University of the Free State.Serges Djoyou Kamga is professor and dean of the faculty of law at the University of the Free State.Arnold Kwesiga manages the Business and Human Rights Unit at the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Gerard Emmanuel Kamdem Kamga, Serges Djoyou Kamga and Arnold KwesigaPart 1: Digging for Development: Dynamic and Perspectives in Curbing Illicit Financial Flows from AfricaChapter 1: Agenda 2063: Illicit Financial Flows and Africa’s Right to Development by Toyin FalolaChapter 2: An Appraisal of the Architecture to Curb Illicit Financial Flows from South Africa and their Impact on the Right to Development by Gerard Emmanuel Kamdem KamgaChapter 3: Ethiopia: Illicit Financial Flows' Consequences Exacerbating Conflict in the Northern Corridor by T.K. SeifeChapter 4: Tax Cooperation in Curbing Illicit Financial Flows from Africa by Arnold Kwesiga and Linah AdudaChapter 5: State Complicity in Impairing its Development Rights: Salient Lessons from the Nigerian Halliburton Bribery Scandal by Marie-Louise F. ArenChapter 6: Advocating for a Human Rights-Based Approach to Combatting Illicit Financial Flows by Annelie de ManChapter 7: South African Banks, State Capture, Illicit Financial Flows and the Violation of the Right to Development by Marianne SéverinChapter 8: Neoliberal Legality, Illicit Financial Flows and the Complicity of the South African Banking Sector by Isaac Shai and Felix DubeChapter 9: The Gendered Impact of Illicit Financial Flows: Women’s Participation and Contribution in Curbing Illicit Financial Flows from Africa with Focus on Nigeria and South Africa by Olayinka Oluwakemi Adeniyi and John Olawuyi Part 2: Illicit Financial Flows, Multinational Corporations and Natural Resource Exploitation in AfricaChapter 10: Digging for Development: The Impact of Illicit Financial Flows on the Realisation of the Right to Development in Africa’s Mineral and Petroleum Exploration Industries by Rita Ozoemena and Chané Henney Chapter 11: Manufacturing Underdevelopment: Coins Trafficking as Illicit Financial Flows in Disguise within the Central Africa Economic and Monetary Cooperation (CEMAC) by Gerard Emmanuel Kamdem Kamga Chapter 12: Resource Financed Infrastructure under Sicomines Agreement as an Impediment to Achieving the Right to Development in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Tumba Dieudonné and Muyamba ManguChapter 13: Taxation, Tax Injustice and the Right to Development in Africa by Serges Djoyou KamgaChapter 14: Hemorrhaging: The Impacts of Illicit Financial Flows on the Realisation of the Right to Development in Africa: A Case for Uganda by Nampwera Chrispus and Kirunga JoyceAbout the Contributors

The central theme of this book is that illicit financial flows prevent African countries from fulfilling the right to development. The book's 14 articles are written mostly by people with a background in law and human rights. This emphasis on the right to development is one reason why many of the articles reference United Nations and African Union (or its predecessors) treaties and charters, and specific articles within them. The definition of illicit financial flows and their cost to Africa are given repeatedly, along with their relationship to the right to development. Multinational corporations, financial institutions, and other actors outside Africa are seen as aiding and abetting the illicit financial flows; their cooperation is necessary for these flows to end. The authors give specific attention to events in Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda with regard to illicit financial flows; they also supply more general articles on the topic. [Illicit] financial flows is an important topic with a wider impact than their hurt to progress in African countries. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.