All countries can be corrupt. What a lot of African countries unfortunately lack is the strong institutions that make establishing corruption regimes more difficult. There are plenty of examples of corruption in about any country you’d care to study; no people is better than the others.
The USA never had more than paper institutions. It it still working with a "first draft" of a democracy, as unlike many other countries it has managed to go 250 years without being forced to do a big modernizing rewrite due to invasion or revolution.
The USA used to boast about "bringing democracy and freedom", while in reality it was never more than a single election away from being ruled by an unchecked God-Emperor dictator - and that could have been done with only 21% of the population voting for him!
Turns out concepts like the Trias Politica only work when the powers are truly independent, who would have thought...
All countries can be corrupt. What a lot of African countries unfortunately lack is the strong institutions that make establishing corruption regimes more difficult. There are plenty of examples of corruption in about any country you’d care to study; no people is better than the others.
The USA used to boast about "bringing democracy and freedom", while in reality it was never more than a single election away from being ruled by an unchecked God-Emperor dictator - and that could have been done with only 21% of the population voting for him!
Turns out concepts like the Trias Politica only work when the powers are truly independent, who would have thought...