Reviews the performances of Algeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda. 121pp, SOUTH AFRICA. INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES.

2005 1919913572 Paperback

Wide-ranging interpretation of the continent's precarious position, exploration the informalization of politics; the re-traditionalisation of society; the productivity of economic 'failure'. Notes, bib, index, 192pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS, 0852558147

A change management and inspirational leadership consultant, Boettger has written a reflection on corruption and self awareness in Africa. The book was inspired by his meeting with a businessman, Leonard Okala, in Cameroon. 80pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

Emphasises the public choice perspective to corruption cleanups, presenting the international dimension of corruption along with global efforts to tackle the problem. BNS, 240pp, USA. KRIEGER PUBLISHING COMPANY, 157524120X

Using a wide variety of sources, the author describes the globally influential World Bank's anti corruption programme and argues that the bank's involvement in politics has weakened its credibility. BNS, 288pp, UK. PALGRAVE, 0333999312

Fraud and smuggling on a major scale, the plundering of natural resources, the privatisation of state institutions, the development of an economy of plunder and the growth of private armies are all features of public life in Africa. This study asks how corruption has developed and looks at the links to global networks. Index, refs, xviii, 126pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS

Daily life in Africa is governed by the 'petty' corruption of public officials in services such as health, transport, or the judicial system. This remarkable study of everyday corruption in three different African countries highlights its extraordinary prevalence - in Benin, Niger and Senegal. It investigate the roots of the system in the growing inability of weakened states to either reward their employees adequately or to deliver expected services. Concludes that corruption in Africa today is qualitatively different from other parts of the world in its sheer pervasiveness; its legitimations, and its huge impact on the nature of the state. Index, bib, notes, 298pp, UK. ZED BOOKS.

A unique North-South-East-West comparative review of the state of whistleblowing around the world. It looks at American, Australian, British, Japanese and South African approaches, focusing on what legislative protection and civil society support is available to whistleblowers in the public interest, how these work, and where they fail in practice. Includes an account by Harry Templeton, the whistleblower on Robert Maxwell's activities at The Mirror Group Newspapers magnet in the UK, and Sherron Watkins, the Enron whistleblower, and legal responses from around the world. 223pp, SOUTH AFRICA. IDASA.