ABSTRACT
Even though fighting corruption in Africa has been a challenge, a few countries have been successful in the fight against corruption. These countries are Botswana, Rwanda and Mauritius. Their success is based on their scores looking at the Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index scores over a period of ten years. So, what did these African countries do right in their fight against corruption that other African countries can learn from their experience? In all the three countries, they have been successful in their fight against corruption because the leaders of these countries exhibited the requisite unflinching political will consistently in their fight against corruption. In addition, in countries like Rwanda, they revised and updated their penal codes as well as updated their anti-corruption laws to fight the canker. Unlike other African countries, these three countries funded their anti-corruption agencies adequately and these agencies were mostly free of government interference. Finally, the anti-corruption agencies in these countries undertook public education of the citizenry on the consequence of being caught engaging in corruption both as a receiver and as a giver of a bribe.
