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CORRUPTION, BRIBERY, AFRICAN CONCEPTS OF GOD, AND THE GOSPEL

by PHILLIPUS J. (FLIP) BUYS in Vol. 5 No. 2 / Oct 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35285/ucc5.2.2019.art10



Corruption and bribery have become a disastrous problem in SubSaharan Africa. A survey of the regular reports of Transparency International reveals how this societal ill has reached pandemic proportions. Although several governments and organizations talk a lot about corruption and appoint special commissions to investigate it, there is a widespread perception that so far only a few branches of the huge tree of corruption and bribery have been lopped off and very little has been done to root out corruption from society. To get to the root of the issue, this article endeavors to compare the ethical implications of African traditional religious concepts of God with God’s self-revelation and to apply this comparison to corruption and bribery.

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