And as usual, it leads you to the same errors.

Traditional African societies used to be tribal, based primarily on kinship relations. What they've learned about corruption they've learned from European colonialists, capitalist ones, I might add.

Bribery and corruption comes from cash economies, economies set up on a European model, economies where money becomes the primary medium of social intercourse. In short, it has nothing to do with your voodoo political superstitions, or alleged lack of them. It has to do with people needing money, wanting money, and doing whatever it takes to get their hands on it, until anything you do to get is acceptable--you know, like criminal gangs or unregulated businesses; both of which flourish in Africa as well as other places.

Advanced western economies have some measure of control over low-level corruption because they have developed governmental institutions over centuries to keep it at bay, and even then, they have simply moved their corruption to the legislatures, the courts, the board rooms and of course, the marketplace. Do you really think post-colonial America was free of corruption, or any of those tinhorn right wing supercapitalist dictatorships in Latin America? Do you really think indoctrinating the masses in Libertarian principles is going to remove the necessity, or desire, to cheat and steal? What kind of goombah infantile delusion is that?

Africa is not a glimpse into our future, it is look into our past (read Dickens, or "I, Claudius", for Chrissakes!). People eschew corrupt behavior when the risks of being punished for it are too high. And that is the ONLY reason. Politics has nothing to do with it.