The growth of fraud and smuggling on a major scale, the
plundering of natural resources, the privatisation of state
institutions, the development of an economy of plunder, the growth
of private armies all of these features of public life in Africa
suggest that the state itself is becoming a vehicle for organised
criminal activity. The three authors propose criteria for gauging
the criminalisation of African states and present a novel
prognosis.
Have we moved on from "classical" corruption? There is a difference
between the corruption of previous decades and the criminalisation
of some African states now taking place. Major operators are now
able to connect with global criminal networks.
What are the political origins of official implication in crime?
The notion of "social capital" has become fashionable among
commentators in recent years.
What aspects of Africa's past have contributed to current
attitudes towards the use of public office for personal enrichment,
or even systemic illegality? The new frontiers of crime in South
Africa. South Africa has a decades-long tradition of association
between crime and politics. South Africa is now the centre of
important international patterns of crime, notably in the drug
trade. It has both Africa s largest formal economy and the
continent's largest criminal economy.
What are the economic origins of official implication in crime?
New forms of corruption have been unintentionally helped by liberal
economic reforms.
African Issues, edited by Alex de Waal
February, 1999 192 pages 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 Index"
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