A very interesting talk by Peter Eigen, the former World Bank Director in Nairobi about how corruption happens and what to do.

Click here to listen.

Transparency International shares their Corruptions Perceptions index for 2009. No surprise, the African continent fares the worst.

A new book, Architects of Poverty discusses the flawed capitalism practiced in the continent. "A stinging critique of African capitalism, describing how the powerful elite on the continent "sell off its assets to enrich the rest of the world". This phenomenon, first witnessed during the slave trade, has not stopped with the advent of independence." from the Mail & Guardian  via Africa Unchained.