Nirmala Dorasamy is Professor in the Department of Public Management and Economics at the Durban University of Technology (DUT), Durban, South Africa. She is an award-winning researcher at the university. Her research focuses on ethics and public sector management, with an emphasis on enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of public service delivery. She has established international linkages in collaborative research with Swinburne University of Technology, Federation University, and Monash University, Australia, the American University in Cairo, MUST University, Kenya, and Mendel University, Czech Republic. Omololu Fagbadebo is Research Fellow at the Durban University of Technology, South Africa. He previously taught Political Science at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, and University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He was Press Secretary to the Speaker, Osun State House of Assembly, Nigeria, 1999-2003. He participated in the Study of the United States Institutes (SUSI) on American Politics and Political Thought Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 2010. His research focuses on comparative politics, legislative studies, public governance, development studies, public institutions, and African government and politics.

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• Part I: Concepts and Theories.- Chapter 1: Introduction: Conceptualizing Procurement, Corruption and Governance.- Chapter 2: An Overview of Procurement, Corruption and Governance in Africa.- Chapter 3: Corruption in Procurement: Antecedents, Practices and Challenges.- Chapter 4: Understanding Corruption in Africa from an Economic and Neopatrimonial Perspectives.- Part II: Country cases.- Chapter 5: Exploring the Procurement Challenges in The South African Public Sector.- Chapter 6: Weak procurement practices and the challenges of service delivery in South Africa.- Chapter 7: Public Procurement Governance: Towards an Anti-Corruption Framework for Public Procurement in Uganda.- Chapter 8: Rising Above the Tide: Anti-Corruption Measure in the Ghanaian Procurement Process.- Chapter 9: Public Procurement Law, Due Process, and Public Sector Corruption in Nigeria: A Review.- Chapter 10: Public procurement reforms in Tanzania: Dispersion of Corruption and governance.- Chapter 11: Political polarisation, compromised procurement and poor service delivery in the Kingdom of Lesotho.- Chapter 12: Public Procurement Oversight and the Scourge of Corruption in the Public Sector: A Comparative analysis of South Africa and Kenya.- Chapter 13: Public Procurement Corruption and Service Delivery in Nigeria and South Africa.- Chapter 14: Charting Pathways to Growth and Development through the Regime of Transparent Procurement Management in Africa.- Chapter 15: Good Governance and the Prospect of Sustainable growth and Development in Africa.

Nirmala Dorasamy is Professor in the Department of Public Management and Economics at the Durban University of Technology (DUT), Durban, South Africa. She is an award-winning researcher at the university. Her research focuses on ethics and public sector management, with an emphasis on enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of public service delivery. She has established international linkages in collaborative research with Swinburne University of Technology, Federation University, and Monash University, Australia, the American University in Cairo, MUST University, Kenya, and Mendel University, Czech Republic. Omololu Fagbadebo is Research Fellow at the Durban University of Technology, South Africa. He previously taught Political Science at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, and University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He was Press Secretary to the Speaker, Osun State House of Assembly, Nigeria, 1999-2003. He participated in the Study of the United States Institutes (SUSI) on American Politics and Political Thought Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 2010. His research focuses on comparative politics, legislative studies, public governance, development studies, public institutions, and African government and politics.

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• Part I: Concepts and Theories.- Chapter 1: Introduction: Conceptualizing Procurement, Corruption and Governance.- Chapter 2: An Overview of Procurement, Corruption and Governance in Africa.- Chapter 3: Corruption in Procurement: Antecedents, Practices and Challenges.- Chapter 4: Understanding Corruption in Africa from an Economic and Neopatrimonial Perspectives.- Part II: Country cases.- Chapter 5: Exploring the Procurement Challenges in The South African Public Sector.- Chapter 6: Weak procurement practices and the challenges of service delivery in South Africa.- Chapter 7: Public Procurement Governance: Towards an Anti-Corruption Framework for Public Procurement in Uganda.- Chapter 8: Rising Above the Tide: Anti-Corruption Measure in the Ghanaian Procurement Process.- Chapter 9: Public Procurement Law, Due Process, and Public Sector Corruption in Nigeria: A Review.- Chapter 10: Public procurement reforms in Tanzania: Dispersion of Corruption and governance.- Chapter 11: Political polarisation, compromised procurement and poor service delivery in the Kingdom of Lesotho.- Chapter 12: Public Procurement Oversight and the Scourge of Corruption in the Public Sector: A Comparative analysis of South Africa and Kenya.- Chapter 13: Public Procurement Corruption and Service Delivery in Nigeria and South Africa.- Chapter 14: Charting Pathways to Growth and Development through the Regime of Transparent Procurement Management in Africa.- Chapter 15: Good Governance and the Prospect of Sustainable growth and Development in Africa.

Nirmala Dorasamy is Professor in the Department of Public Management and Economics at the Durban University of Technology (DUT), Durban, South Africa. She is an award-winning researcher at the university. Her research focuses on ethics and public sector management, with an emphasis on enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of public service delivery. She has established international linkages in collaborative research with Swinburne University of Technology, Federation University, and Monash University, Australia, the American University in Cairo, MUST University, Kenya, and Mendel University, Czech Republic. Omololu Fagbadebo is Research Fellow at the Durban University of Technology, South Africa. He previously taught Political Science at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, and University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He was Press Secretary to the Speaker, Osun State House of Assembly, Nigeria, 1999-2003. He participated in the Study of the United States Institutes (SUSI) on American Politics and Political Thought Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 2010. His research focuses on comparative politics, legislative studies, public governance, development studies, public institutions, and African government and politics.

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• Part I: Concepts and Theories.- Chapter 1: Introduction: Conceptualizing Procurement, Corruption and Governance.- Chapter 2: An Overview of Procurement, Corruption and Governance in Africa.- Chapter 3: Corruption in Procurement: Antecedents, Practices and Challenges.- Chapter 4: Understanding Corruption in Africa from an Economic and Neopatrimonial Perspectives.- Part II: Country cases.- Chapter 5: Exploring the Procurement Challenges in The South African Public Sector.- Chapter 6: Weak procurement practices and the challenges of service delivery in South Africa.- Chapter 7: Public Procurement Governance: Towards an Anti-Corruption Framework for Public Procurement in Uganda.- Chapter 8: Rising Above the Tide: Anti-Corruption Measure in the Ghanaian Procurement Process.- Chapter 9: Public Procurement Law, Due Process, and Public Sector Corruption in Nigeria: A Review.- Chapter 10: Public procurement reforms in Tanzania: Dispersion of Corruption and governance.- Chapter 11: Political polarisation, compromised procurement and poor service delivery in the Kingdom of Lesotho.- Chapter 12: Public Procurement Oversight and the Scourge of Corruption in the Public Sector: A Comparative analysis of South Africa and Kenya.- Chapter 13: Public Procurement Corruption and Service Delivery in Nigeria and South Africa.- Chapter 14: Charting Pathways to Growth and Development through the Regime of Transparent Procurement Management in Africa.- Chapter 15: Good Governance and the Prospect of Sustainable growth and Development in Africa.