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Papers by Eme Ekekwe
The contemporary crisis of the Nigerian economy and society has once again reawakened the debate ... more The contemporary crisis of the Nigerian economy and society has once again reawakened the debate on the roots of the deepening crisis and conflicts in the social formation4. Traditional and mainstream explanations and rationalisations, such as insufficient foreign exchange or cash flow in the economy, low productivity of workers, bureaucratic inefficiency and ineffectiveness, punishment by God, dishonesty or insufficient fear of God, etc., have failed to provide holistic and viable explanations of the crisis. Indeed, explanations which fail to understand and expose the role of imperialism and the crisis of dependent capitalism in the crisis appear to be diversionary and incomplete. The contract between the Nigerian social formation and the forces of Western imperialism had far reaching implications for power, production and exchange relations5. The contact not only culminated in the structural incorporation of the social formation into the periphery of a highly exploitative and uneq...
Africa Development: a Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA, 1982
African Urban Studies, 1983
Africa Development a Quarterly Journal of Codesria, 1982
The Journal of Modern African Studies, 1979
The Journal of Modern African Studies, 1980
Africa Spectrum, 1988
... Osoba, Eddie Madunagu, Eskor Toyo,ID Ayu, Ayo Dunmoye, Ugochukwu Uba, Claude Ake ... 18 Bangu... more ... Osoba, Eddie Madunagu, Eskor Toyo,ID Ayu, Ayo Dunmoye, Ugochukwu Uba, Claude Ake ... 18 Bangura, Yusuf, Rauf Mustapha, Saidu Adamu: The Deepening Economic Crisis and ... Presidential Economic Advisers - a group of bourgeois economists - Alhaji Shehu Shagari went ...
African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, Sep 30, 2014
At the post 1990s, African countries undertook some democratic reforms following the end of one p... more At the post 1990s, African countries undertook some democratic reforms following the end of one party authoritarian regimes and return to multiparty elections, which resulted in a more competitive political system. However, the central clog to economic transformation namely, public corruption remains germane. The paper explores some of the theoretical issues raised by the dynamics of socio-political change in Africa within the context of corruption and public administration including the internal and external dimensions of the unfolding corruption. It recognized that corruption in Africa is a development issue and therefore defines corruption as activities that undermine development and argued that corruption, which is largely conceived as diversion of public resource for private gains, significantly constricts development administration. This in turn impedes transition to developmental state. Corruption thus remains a theme that requires adequate attention in Africa's development discourse. Using the institutional approach and secondary data sources, it corroborates Sen's model of "development as freedom", and argues that development administration practice should now be guided by certain ethical guidelines defined on the basis of social justice, transparency, accountability and equality in order for African states to transform to developmental states. The paper refutes existing practices in Africa where bureaucratic corruption undermines economic growth, rather proposes institutional overhaul to usher in a developmental state.
The contemporary crisis of the Nigerian economy and society has once again reawakened the debate ... more The contemporary crisis of the Nigerian economy and society has once again reawakened the debate on the roots of the deepening crisis and conflicts in the social formation4. Traditional and mainstream explanations and rationalisations, such as insufficient foreign exchange or cash flow in the economy, low productivity of workers, bureaucratic inefficiency and ineffectiveness, punishment by God, dishonesty or insufficient fear of God, etc., have failed to provide holistic and viable explanations of the crisis. Indeed, explanations which fail to understand and expose the role of imperialism and the crisis of dependent capitalism in the crisis appear to be diversionary and incomplete. The contract between the Nigerian social formation and the forces of Western imperialism had far reaching implications for power, production and exchange relations5. The contact not only culminated in the structural incorporation of the social formation into the periphery of a highly exploitative and uneq...
Africa Development: a Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA, 1982
African Urban Studies, 1983
Africa Development a Quarterly Journal of Codesria, 1982
The Journal of Modern African Studies, 1979
The Journal of Modern African Studies, 1980
Africa Spectrum, 1988
... Osoba, Eddie Madunagu, Eskor Toyo,ID Ayu, Ayo Dunmoye, Ugochukwu Uba, Claude Ake ... 18 Bangu... more ... Osoba, Eddie Madunagu, Eskor Toyo,ID Ayu, Ayo Dunmoye, Ugochukwu Uba, Claude Ake ... 18 Bangura, Yusuf, Rauf Mustapha, Saidu Adamu: The Deepening Economic Crisis and ... Presidential Economic Advisers - a group of bourgeois economists - Alhaji Shehu Shagari went ...
African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, Sep 30, 2014
At the post 1990s, African countries undertook some democratic reforms following the end of one p... more At the post 1990s, African countries undertook some democratic reforms following the end of one party authoritarian regimes and return to multiparty elections, which resulted in a more competitive political system. However, the central clog to economic transformation namely, public corruption remains germane. The paper explores some of the theoretical issues raised by the dynamics of socio-political change in Africa within the context of corruption and public administration including the internal and external dimensions of the unfolding corruption. It recognized that corruption in Africa is a development issue and therefore defines corruption as activities that undermine development and argued that corruption, which is largely conceived as diversion of public resource for private gains, significantly constricts development administration. This in turn impedes transition to developmental state. Corruption thus remains a theme that requires adequate attention in Africa's development discourse. Using the institutional approach and secondary data sources, it corroborates Sen's model of "development as freedom", and argues that development administration practice should now be guided by certain ethical guidelines defined on the basis of social justice, transparency, accountability and equality in order for African states to transform to developmental states. The paper refutes existing practices in Africa where bureaucratic corruption undermines economic growth, rather proposes institutional overhaul to usher in a developmental state.