Corruption Contd. 'It’s Our Turn to Eat'-Kenya's Watergate

Patrick Smith at the FT reviews Michela Wrong's It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower:

These are hard times for anti-corruption campaigners, and harder still in Africa where activists face harassment and sometimes death. According to United Nations and World Bank estimates, corruption and transfer pricing cost Africa more than $150bn a year.Michela Wrong’s compelling book, It’s Our Turn to Eat, charts the career of a doughty opponent of this corruption: Kenyan anti-graft campaigner, John Githongo. By describing Githongo’s efforts, Wrong explains the mechanics of corruption within government and business circles and why so much western development policy in Kenya fails.