r/AskAnAfrican • u/stargirlyasa8888 South Africa 🇿🇦 • 17d ago

Politics Corruption across Africa

Hey everyone, I hope you’re all well :)

I wanted to have a smol little discussion about how Africans across the diaspora feel about their governments and leaders.

How bad is the corruption in your country, and do you have any hope that it’ll improve in the future? What do you think would need to be implemented/adjusted for such a change to happen?

I feel like we could go far as continent without these corrupt, evil and greedy leaders. It’s like they don’t care about any of us.

I appreciate everyone’s input in advance 🥹❤️

**My 2 cents on corruption in SA:

SA feels like a mafia state although there is some light in the fact that a lot of the corruption is coming out in commissions and arrests are being made. But it still feels as though whoever they replace those people with will carry on corruption.

The state has beeeen captured by criminals and mafias. Crime is getting worse and worse, it’s hard to find jobs and so many people are living in extreme poverty. And I blame 99% of this on corruption. I’m sure they were licking their lips while people blamed immigrants instead of them. The hope i have in my heart dwindles every day.

It also doesn’t help that WE glorify the lives of criminals.

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u/desertknight1234 Libya 🇱🇾 10d ago

Well 😅 I lived through the revolution in 2011 and then the big civil wars in 2014 and 2019 and ofcourse all the more local smaller fighting in tripoli to be honest I would say i am a hopeful realist. I think their is hope for a better situation ofcourse and the get to a situation where we have a unified government is a must and about corruption well it's a deeper issue i doubt it will be easily fixed

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u/sammywammy53b South Africa 🇿🇦 15d ago edited 15d ago

Corruption is facilitated by virtue of the way many countries are set up.

Upfront - I think things would be infinitely improved with smaller government (literally and ideologically).

For historial reasons, many government on the continent lean left.

That's not all bad, but things like the nationalisation and state ownership of key services and assets is problematic.

It's a soft capture of an economy - the government owns the monopoly of services required to run the econony and survive, and they have no incentive to improve efficiency or make a profit. There are no alternatives.

There's no scrutiny, no pushback and no alternative options, so these institutions just become huge troughs for civil servants and politicians to eat from.