This issue of the Journal of Anti-Corruption Law presents interesting scholarly articles that offer a rigorous and multidimensional interrogation of corruption, accountability and institutional integrity across African governance systems.

Walyemera examines Uganda’s anti-corruption architecture, exposing how the proliferation of formal and informal enforcement bodies reflects a deficit of political will and often produces institutional duplication, conflicting mandates and weakened enforcement. He argues for institutional rationalisation and the strategic use of emerging technologies to enhance accountability and efficiency. Mubangizi adopts a human rights lens to analyse the corrosive relationship between corruption and sustainable development in Africa. Drawing on comparative case studies, he demonstrates how systemic corruption undermines socio-economic rights and obstructs the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals, advancing a compelling case for a human rights–based anti-corruption framework.

Musavengana interrogates corruption within child-sensitive social protection systems, conceptualising it as structural violence against children. His analysis advances a transformative, rights-based approach aimed at dismantling entrenched patterns of exclusion and intergenerational disadvantage.  Sope explores emergency procurement during the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa and Nigeria, revealing how urgency and weakened controls intensified corruption risks, and proposes resilience-oriented procurement reforms to strengthen future crisis responses.