Maintaining Peace and Security in Sub-Saharan Africa – the Tragic Connection between Corruption, Bad Governance and Criminality
Adetoro Rasheed Adenrele *
Department of Social Studies, Federal College of Education, Abeokuta, Nigeria
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The state of peace and security in the Sub-Saharan region of Africa is worrisome. This paper therefore submitted that the fragile nature of security and peace in Africa is a factor of corruption, poor governance and criminality. It is however recommended that genuine soul cleansing, accountable and participatory governance, education-for-peace, serious collective anti-corruption crusade and Integrated African Regional Surveillance (ARS) would go a long way to checkmate the current high rate of instability in the region.
Keywords: Peace, security, Sub-Saharan Africa, corruption, bad governance, criminality