CUNS

1
CUNS cultural event

• Corruption in National Leaership
• Image reality what is to be done?
• Dapo Ladimeji
• 8 March 2008
• Clare College (1971)?

2
Importance of leading students

• no other society allows elite to be chosen and
  educated abroad
• role of sierra leonians/ caribbeans/ Freetown
  compradors
• rent seeking compradors changed colours after
  Independence
• language of nationalism behaviour of
  neo-colonialism

3
Generation of failed scholars

• believed what they were told by their foreign
  professors
• promotion based on evaluation by foreign
  universities
• no funding no time for research
• exodus of the ambitious

4
CRITICAL ROLE OF THIS GENERATION

• GET BACK TO THE ROOTS!!!
• Roman Civil War Lucan, Appian vol34, Tacitus
  (originals in translation only! not modern books
  try Loeb versions)?
• - Toussaint L'Ouverture based his education on
  this- outwitted British generals and Napoleon-

5
Critical role -II

• Lao Tzu, Sun Tzu Confucius
• Soon anyone who has not read above should be
  ignored
• Understand the academic game and the realpolitik
  game

6
Current views of Africa

• lies, lies damned lies
• economic loss of colonial Africa Haiti
• burden of taxation
• monopoly environment of foreign suppliers
• Tax theft by foreign corporations to Western
  govts

7
state of corruption

• Primary cause demoralisation
• secondary institutional arrangements
• tertiary failure of pension provisions
• compare this with US/UK
• compare with France
• legal forms of corruption in West e.g. Microsoft
  etc

8
effect of demoralisation

• grab what you can whle you can?
• compare India, S Korea, Thailand
• psychological warfare against Africa
• comprador leadership caught in a vice
• can't admit it has an enemy
• Bismarck's views

9
Corruption is not just economic

• Profesional corruption
• banking and law pimps to foreign capital
• Academic lack of commitment to students

10
Corruption Mismanagement

• Mismanagement is far far worse a cause of
  economic catastrophe in history
• corruption is a diversion of attention from
  mismanagement
• cf S Korea, early 19th C USA

11
Conclusions

• demoralisation is the greatest evil
• leading to corruption, mismanagement an
  in-fighting