When Michela Wrongs Kenyan friend John Githongo appeared one cold February morning on the doorstep of her London flat carrying a small mountain of luggage and four trilling mobile phones… Mehr…
When Michela Wrongs Kenyan friend John Githongo appeared one cold February morning on the doorstep of her London flat carrying a small mountain of luggage and four trilling mobile phones he seemed determined to ignore it was clear something had gone very wrong in a country regarded until then as one of Africas few budding success stories. Two years earlier in the wave of euphoria that followed the election defeat of long-serving President Daniel arap Moi John had been appointed Kenyas new anti-corruption czar. In choosing this giant of a man with a booming laugh respected as a longstanding anti-corruption crusader the new government was signalling to both its own public and the world at large that it was set on ending the practices that had made Kenya an international by-word for sleaze. Now John was on the run having realised that the new administration far from breaking with the past was using near-identical techniques to pilfer public funds. Johns tale which has all the elements of the political thriller is the story of how a brave man came to make a lonely decision with huge ramifications. But his story transcends the personal touching as it does on the cultural historical and social themes that lie at the heart of the continents continuing crisis. Tracking this story of an African whistleblower who started out as a pillar of the establishment Michela Wrong seeks answers to the questions that have puzzled outsiders for decades. What is it about African society that makes corruption so hard to eradicate so sweeping in its scope so destructive in its impact? Why have so many African presidents found it so easy to reduce all political discussion to the self-serving calculation of which tribe gets to "eat"? And at what stage will Africans start placing the wider interests of their nation ahead of the narrow interests of their tribe? eBook<
When Michela Wrongs Kenyan friend John Githongo appeared one cold February morning on the doorstep of her London flat carrying a small mountain of luggage and four trilling mobile phones… Mehr…
When Michela Wrongs Kenyan friend John Githongo appeared one cold February morning on the doorstep of her London flat carrying a small mountain of luggage and four trilling mobile phones he seemed determined to ignore it was clear something had gone very wrong in a country regarded until then as one of Africas few budding success stories. Two years earlier in the wave of euphoria that followed the election defeat of long-serving President Daniel arap Moi John had been appointed Kenyas new anti-corruption czar. In choosing this giant of a man with a booming laugh respected as a longstanding anti-corruption crusader the new government was signalling to both its own public and the world at large that it was set on ending the practices that had made Kenya an international by-word for sleaze. Now John was on the run having realised that the new administration far from breaking with the past was using near-identical techniques to pilfer public funds. Johns tale which has all the elements of the political thriller is the story of how a brave man came to make a lonely decision with huge ramifications. But his story transcends the personal touching as it does on the cultural historical and social themes that lie at the heart of the continents continuing crisis. Tracking this story of an African whistleblower who started out as a pillar of the establishment Michela Wrong seeks answers to the questions that have puzzled outsiders for decades. What is it about African society that makes corruption so hard to eradicate so sweeping in its scope so destructive in its impact? Why have so many African presidents found it so easy to reduce all political discussion to the self-serving calculation of which tribe gets to "eat"? And at what stage will Africans start placing the wider interests of their nation ahead of the narrow interests of their tribe? eBook<
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