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Weep for the One Who Descends? African Democracies, Politics of Stomach Infrastructure, and Homology of Corruption

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This article discusses contemporary African democratic practices vis-à-vis politics of stomach infrastructure that debilitates sustainable infrastructural development in the region. In this article, clarifications are articulated within four interlinked phenomena: the enthusiasm for democracy, its collapse, and the resurgence of hybrid-democratic order that metamorphosed into politics of stomach infrastructure that facilitates corruption in African postcolonial state. It unravels the existing democratic prototype against ideal democratic order. The article considered the prevailing democratic inclination moseyed through citizens and political elite’s armistice that presage democratic peril. The article argued that unscrupulous political collaboration and democratic debauchery that exist between the political elites and the electorates craft an opportunity for institutionalized corruption in the region. Finally, the article found homogenous paradigms of corruption in the selected African states, including South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nigeria.

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  • John Sunday Ojo, 2019. "Weep for the One Who Descends? African Democracies, Politics of Stomach Infrastructure, and Homology of Corruption," International Journal of Public Administration, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(3), pages 240-258, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:lpadxx:v:42:y:2019:i:3:p:240-258
    DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2018.1426008
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