YONA MASHETI - Beyond Corruption: Africa’s Institutional Crisis is a Crisis of Trust - The Elephant

YONA MASHETI - Beyond Corruption: Africa’s Institutional Crisis is a Crisis of Trust - The Elephant

For decades, the standard explanation for Africa’s weak institutions has barely changed. The story goes like this: corruption is the root cause of institutional failure, and the solution is anti-corruption drives, legal reforms, and stronger oversight bodies. But this diagnosis is shallow. It treats corruption as the disease, when in fact corruption is only a symptom – the real disease is something deeper, something far more difficult to confron…