Abstract
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to problematise the concept of corruption as it is used in the African context by exposing the weaknesses in the business model used to define corruption and resource the massive yet incompetent anti‐corruption effort. The paper then aims to follow this critique by considering an alternative way of dealing with the awesome dimensions of African corruption.Design/methodology/approachThe paper utilises in‐depth secondary source analysis, applying critical theory.FindingsCorruption's main interpretive framework, neo‐liberalism, is exposed as dominating, business‐centric and non‐utilitarian. A new paradigm with a strong ethnographic texture is presented.Originality/valueThe paper for the first time co‐analyses two contending paradigms for the construction of African corruption in the context of the global economic crisis.
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