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- Brings together governance, history, political science, peace and conflict, and law under the same roof
- Highlights FOI law to enhance good governance, anti-corruption and citizen participation in governance
- Challenges the conventional narrative of why the Sierra Leone civil war broke out
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conceptualizing Freedom of Information: Theories and Legal Doctrines
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The Curse of Corruption in Sierra Leone
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Freedom of Information Law: Panacea in Reducing Corruption in Sierra Leone
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About this book
This book argues that Sierra Leone’s ten-year civil conflict demonstrates the criticality of freedom of information (FOI) as a facet of good governance where corruption thrives, spanning both public and private sectors, if Sierra Leone’s continued security and stability are to be ensured. It argues that it was the absence of an anti-corruption tool like FOI and its attendants, transparency, and accountability, in governance generally, and in the area of the extractive industry in particular, that lead to other social phenomena which directly sparked the war. It proffers that for the continued consolidation of peace, security, stability and development in Sierra Leone, transparency and accountability must be ensured by protecting and implementing the demand driven anti-graft FOI.
Straddling the disciplines of law, political science, public policy, and history, the book’s major premise is that it was the absence of FOI in the area of governance and the extractive industry, which enabled politicians, civil servants and the politically connected to ransom and exploit Sierra Leone’s mineral resources for their own profit with impunity, a state of affairs which led to underdevelopment, state collapse and an embittered civil populace especially the youth. The book postulates that as such any attempt to ensure long-term peace in Sierra Leone, should seek to avoid replicating the conditions that gave rise to that gruesome conflict- elites expropriation of national resources through endemic graft. The book proposes the comprehensive and effective implementation of the Right to Information Act 2013.Reviews
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Law, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Freedom of Information Law and Good Governance
Book Subtitle: The Curse of Corruption in Sierra Leone
Authors: Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83658-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83657-3Published: 16 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83660-3Published: 16 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83658-0Published: 15 October 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 420
Topics: Public International Law , Public Policy, Governance and Government, Political History, Development Studies