CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS IN EAST AFRICA’S KEY TEXTBOOK MARKET ARE HARD TO NAIL DOWN
August 1st, 2012
BY ANDREW GREEN, IN KAMPALA
For publishers working in east Africa, textbooks spell survival, but two major western publishers have found recently that the ethical dilemmas of working in the region can be hard to navigate.
With fierce competition for those contracts and limited local oversight capacity, the industry is dogged by persistent rumors of requests for and payments of bribery, money paid to delay rival's books and other forms of corruption. Those rumors were fuelled in July when the World Bank debarred two wholly owned subsidiaries of Oxford University ...
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