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At the post 1990s, African countries undertook some democratic reforms following the end of one party authoritarian regimes and return to multiparty elections, which resulted in a more competitive political system. However, the central clog to economic transformation namely, public corruption remains germane. The paper explores some of the theoretical issues raised by the dynamics of socio-political change in Africa within the context of corruption and public administration including the internal and external dimensions of the unfolding corruption. It recognized that corruption in Africa is a development issue and therefore defines corruption as activities that undermine development and argued that corruption, which is largely conceived as diversion of public resource for private gains, significantly constricts development administration. This in turn impedes transition to developmental state. Corruption thus remains a theme that requires adequate attention in Africa's development discourse. Using the institutional approach and secondary data sources, it corroborates Sen's model of "development as freedom", and argues that development administration practice should now be guided by certain ethical guidelines defined on the basis of social justice, transparency, accountability and equality in order for African states to transform to developmental states. The paper refutes existing practices in Africa where bureaucratic corruption undermines economic growth, rather proposes institutional overhaul to usher in a developmental state.

34I to other members of the Six, especially West Germany, Italy and, to some extent, the Netherlands. With the accession of Britain to the Treaty of Rome, the expanded E.E.C. has become the largest single market for the Associated Members, taking about 44 per cent of their exports. The Lome Convention has globalised the policy of the European Community towards developing countries, and the success so far of its operations is evidenced by its renegotiation for a second period of five years after the expiry of the original 1975 agreement in March 1980. Under Lome I the E.E.C. adopted the novel Stabex scheme of export revenue compensation, whereby individual African, Caribbean, and Pacific states are compensated for any losses they might suffer from deteriorating terms of trade arising from fluctuations in the prices of their exports. There are also provision for trade and industrial cooperation between the 46 (now 58) A.C.P. members and the E.E.C. It would be possible to list a number of minor errors in this otherwise excellent book. Such carping would not, however, derogate from the usefulness of this very good account of E.E.C.-African relationship. Europe and Africa :from association to partnership is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the subject.

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