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Bonang Mohale

Coming in From the Cold

An Autobiography

The Intention to Understand the Pathological Consequences on Our Leadership and Financial Systems in Africa The principal intention of this book is to provide a scientific, interdisciplinary, and practical understanding of the pathological consequences of financial crime and weak leadership on Africa's public and private sectors. Rather than viewing corruption, fraud, money laundering, embezzlement, illicit financial flows, procurement fraud, tax evasion, cyber-enabled financial crime, and governance failures as isolated incidents, this work examines them as symptoms of deeper systemic dysfunctions that undermine the health, resilience, and sustainability of African institutions. Drawing upon the principles of pathology-the scientific study of the causes, mechanisms, development, manifestations, and consequences of abnormal conditions-this book introduces a new conceptual framework for analysing financial crime and leadership failure. Just as medical pathology investigates diseases that impair the normal functioning of the human body, the pathology of financial crime and leadership investigates the conditions that impair the normal functioning of governments, financial institutions, corporations, regulatory bodies, and society as a whole. The intention is to demonstrate that Africa's development challenges cannot be fully understood by focusing solely on individual criminal acts or isolated leadership failures. Instead, attention must be directed towards the underlying institutional, behavioural, ethical, political, economic, legal, and cultural factors that create an environment in which financial crime flourishes and weak leadership persists. These underlying conditions function as the "disease processes" of governance and economic management, gradually eroding institutional integrity, public confidence, investor trust, and national productivity. This book therefore seeks to answer several fundamental questions. Why do financial crimes continue to thrive despite legal reforms and anti-corruption initiatives? Why do some public institutions remain vulnerable to corruption while others demonstrate resilience? How does weak leadership contribute to the expansion

Understand The Crime. Expose The Weakness. Build In Integrity. Secure The Future

The Pathology of Financial Crime and Weakness of Leadership in Public and Private Sector of Africa

Introduces a data-driven framework for measuring governance through a fourteen-component Macro-Governance Index, demonstrating its strong predictive power for national development outcomes and offering practical tools to diagnose governance gaps and guide policy interventions.
Every year, governments borrow trillions, spend billions on development programs, and publish volumes of economic statistics-yet no widely accepted framework exists for answering a deceptively simple question: is governance actually working? Traditional approaches rely on subjective expert assessments or narrowly focused indices that measure inputs rather than outcomes. Macro-Governance Theory proposes that governance can be measured with the same empirical rigor we bring to medicine, engineering, and economics-and that doing so is essential if citizens and policymakers are to hold institutions accountable for results. 

Drawing on 26 years of publicly available data across 170 countries, the book constructs the Macro-Governance Index (MGI)-a fourteen-component composite spanning infrastructure, connectivity, financial inclusion, human capital, security, institutional quality, and economic integration. The MGI correlates with the UN Human Development Index at r = 0.97, and this relationship is not driven by income alone: controlling for GNI, the framework retains substantial independent predictive power, confirming that governance infrastructure-not just wealth-determines whether nations deliver well-being to their citizens. 

The book reveals patterns that conventional measures miss. Novel metrics for credit access and household-level financial reach show that the effective economic gap between the Global North and Sub-Saharan Africa is approximately 70× rather than the 53× that standard income comparisons suggest-a hidden disparity with profound implications for development policy. A governance simulation framework models how investments in one dimension cascade through others, enabling policymakers to identify the highest-leverage interventions for their country's specific development stage. 

Seven detailed case studies-Singapore, Rwanda, Estonia, Botswana, Chile, Costa Rica, and Lebanon-demonstrate how the framework diagnoses governance strengths and weaknesses in practice. An analysis of the ten fastest-rising nations reveals that while successful governance strategies differ radically across political systems, they share common patterns in infrastructure sequencing and institutional development that the MGI captures and quantifies. 

Designed for dual utility, the book serves as an analytical framework for researchers and policymakers and as an accessible assessment tool for citizens through the companion website grademygovernment.com. A full reproducibility dataset covering all 170 countries across seven benchmark years is included, making this not just an argument for governance science but its working prototype.

A Data-Driven Framework for Measuring and Improving Governance Across Nations

Macro-Governance Theory

Reflections on Policing and Security

Book 8 brings together the most recent complete volume of the journal. It reflects a field that is confident in its African foundations and engaged with its diaspora. Social development is prominent. Contributors examine community participation in managing protected areas and the role of community development workers in Ethiopia. They also look at women-run village community banks in Tanzania and the Ubudlelane philosophy as a communal approach to poverty alleviation. Another argues for building social policy on Ubuntu rather than adding it as an afterthought. Speeches from the Africa Day Indaba Australasia and the Pacific 2024 consider diaspora collaboration for development, education for the 21st century and the identity of African Australian youth. Other articles cover children's rights, child marriage, family reunification, adolescent pregnancy, palliative care, suicide prevention, parolee reintegration and social work regulation in Eswatini. The book is a wide-ranging resource for students, practitioners, researchers and policy makers.

Volume 15 (2025)

African Journal of Social Work Book 8

This volume addresses the important, but under-noticed, question of the impact of state size and scale for constitutional law and governance.Often, the best way to understand the effect of scale is to examine states where scale is demonstrably lacking. Doing so allows a form of 'reflective' comparison that provides greater insight and clarity into the significance of state size, and constitutional scale, as factors affecting a range of constitutional outcomes. As such, the collection brings together scholars from a wide range of jurisdictions, living and working across the Global South and North, to focus on the lessons from a range of small states and jurisdictions in this context. Attention is devoted to the constitutional experiences of such states and jurisdictions in Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, the Caribbean and Oceania. The volume also explicitly invites critical reflection on, and problemisation, of the issues of line-drawing and boundary definition around notions of state and jurisdictional size.It will be of interest to audiences working in and interested in small states generally, as well as a broader comparative audience interested in issues of scale in constitutional design and implementation.

Small State Constitutionalism

This book includes a collection of lectures and masterclass contributions by leading African scholars, among them the inaugural Ubuntu Annual Lecture by Professor Bagele Chilisa on relational ontologies and epistemologies. Several of these pieces focus on social development. They look at social work's contribution to socio-economic development, human, social and economic capital development in Africa, and the sustainability of Africa through technological innovation and indigenous knowledge systems. Other contributions cover research grant writing, fieldwork education, social norms and the Tree of Life model. A special group of articles on older persons covers social justice, elder abuse, food security, residential care, and the role of pensions and cash transfers in sustainable livelihoods. Further articles address labour force participation and poverty in Cameroon, women's subsistence farming in Kenya, fatherhood, school bullying, child marriage, proverbs as African epistemology and Ubuntu ethics in research. The book will be useful to anyone seeking African-centred approaches to social work and social development.

Volume 14 (2024)

African Journal of Social Work Book 7

Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) actively rebuilds the natural environment, with a conservation approach that transcends the traditional mitigation of environmental impacts, emphasising the enhancement and restoration of ecosystems and biodiversity. Biodiversity Net Gain Law and Practice provides a comprehensive understanding of the legal frameworks and policies that govern the protection and enhancement of biodiversity. This book explores the intersection of environmental, planning, and development laws and highlights how these regulations work together to ensure sustainable development and conservation efforts. It covers key legislation such as the Planning Act 2008, the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, and the National Planning Policy Framework. Through case studies, legal analysis, and policy discussions, this book illustrates the practical applications and challenges of implementing biodiversity laws, and compares their success in the UK, Europe, India, Australia, Japan and South Africa. This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Environmental Law online service.

Biodiversity Net Gain Law and Practice

Book 2 opens with an editorial on social work and social development in Zimbabwe, a theme that runs through the volume. The articles cover child protection, juvenile justice, foster and kinship care, refugees, military social work, disability, substance abuse, and the experiences of women and older people. Social development contributions look at social enterprise in service delivery, women's role in development, environmental crisis and sustainable development, social sustainability policies for poverty reduction, and humanitarian work in developing regions. Several articles were early African work on environmental social work and climate change. Others look at indigenous social security and practices such as Zunde raMambo as ways of caring for vulnerable children. The book also contains a tribute to Professor Edwell Kaseke, whose work shaped social development thinking in Africa. Contributors from Zimbabwe, Malawi, Ghana, Botswana, Nigeria and South Africa write about practice, education and policy. The book will interest anyone teaching, studying or practising social work and social development in Africa.

Volumes 6 to 8 (2016 to 2018)

African Journal of Social Work Book 2

In the mid-2020s many would agree that the world needs to be very different from the way it is now. For Christians this raises afresh the question of mission - what kind of effect is their faith intended to have? This book attempts an answer by considering the Spirit of God as the primary agent of mission and exploring what this means for ecumenism and evangelism. It reckons with destructive forces yet finds hope for transformation in the call to mission.
*In the last decade or so, Kenneth Ross has emerged as a major voice in the area of ecumenical mission theology. These pages, written in his careful, elegant, and insightful style, let readers hear that voice clearly and powerfully, and to recommit themselves to mission and unity in today's violent and troubled world."
Stephen Bevans, SVD
Louis 1. Luzbetak, SVD Professor of Mission and Culture, Emeritus Catholic Theological Union, Chicago
"Through profound research and discerning analysis, this book orients us to the contemporary understanding of mission as the action of the Spirit of God. It is also an urgent call for our faithful participation in this mission. A must-read for everyone with ecumenism and evangelism at heart."
Dr. Ming-Chu Natalie Lin, Moderator, Council for World Mission

Spirit of Mission

Checkmate traces the astonishing ascent of Shoprite Checkers since 2017, which marked the end of the Whitey Basson era. But in 2017 the future was far from rosy. Pieter Engelbrecht, the newly anointed CEO, was immediately hit with trouble on multiple fronts: collapsing African economies, internal IT chaos, failing national infrastructure, strikes and labour friction, the pandemic and riots.

Checkmate is the extraordinary untold story about how the company confronted crisis after crisis, leaning aggressively into sometimes risky cutting-edge technology, and built what is now a near impenetrable digital and physical retail fortress.

Drawing from his own investigation as well as in-depth interviews with the senior management team, award-winning author, Steven Boykey Sidley, dives into the backstories of Xtra Savings, Sixty60, FreshX and the viral marketing campaigns to paint a vivid and colourful picture of corporate resilience and innovation.

CHECKMATE - How Shoprite Checkers Rewrote the Rules and Won

Book 4 collects the six issues of 2021, a year shaped by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. A dedicated group of articles looks at the pandemic's effects on
social work education, informal sector livelihoods, child welfare, older people, people with disabilities and national social policy in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and
Botswana. Social development is a strong thread. Contributors assess social investment programmes in Nigeria and the place of social research in transformative social policy. They
also examine social entrepreneurship and sustainable livelihoods in response to the feminisation of poverty, and the effect of climate change on social development programmes. Other articles apply Ubuntu to corruption, institutional care and the sharing of tuberculosis medication. They also cover gender-based violence, social work regulation, family mediation, the Ulwaluko rite of passage and recovery after Cyclone Idai. The book is suited to students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners.

Volume 11 (2021)

African Journal of Social Work Book 4

There are two ways of studying the Bible. There is devotional study of the Bible, as it is done in Churches in the form of "Bible Study". The main objective is to draw lessons from the Bible and apply it to one's life. There is also the scientific study of the Bible, an academic study of the Bible. In this sense the Bible is studied critically as an ancient writing, with the modern scientific method of interpretation of ancient writings (Hermeneutics), which throws light on the historical background of the writing, the author, his culture, the language he used, the circumstances in which he wrote, the problems) he was addressing, the literary style he used in addressing the problems), etc. This book is thus a scientific study of the Bible, an academic study of the Bible, a hermeneutical study of the Bible, as it is done in educational institutions.
Inspiration of Sacred Scriptures ¿¿¿Hermeneutics: The science of interpretation of ancient writings ¿*¿ The art of interpretation ¿¿¿ Interpreting Sacred Scriptures in the Church ¿¿¿ VOLUME TWO PART TWO:THE PENTATEUCH ¿¿¿ Introduction ¿¿¿ The Pentateuch ¿¿¿ Genesis ¿¿¿ A critical look at the two creation stories in Genesis ¿*¿ What Genesis teaches us about the nature of sin ¿*¿ The call of Abraham: the origin of the Jewish nation Exodus, the book of liberation ¿¿¿ Leviticus, the book of holiness ¿*¿ The book of Numbers ¿*¿ The book of Deuteronomy ¿*¿ VOLUME 2 PART I: INTRODUCTION TO NEW TESTAMENT LITERATURE ¿¿¿ INTRODUCTION ¿*¿ Taxation in the New Testament Theology of Matthew the Evangelist ¿*¿ The Theology of Mark the Evangelist ¿*¿ The Theology of Luke the Evangelist ¿¿¿ Theology of John the Evangelist ¿¿¿ The 4 portraits of Jesus by the four Evangelists ¿*¿ VOLUME 2 PART 2 - THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS ¿*¿ The Gospel of Mark The Gospel of Luke ¿*¿ The Gospel of Matthew ¿*¿ The synoptic problem ¿*¿ VOLUME 3,PART I:THE GOSPEL OF JOHN ¿*¿ The structure of the Gospel ¿¿¿ Authorship of the Gospel ¿¿¿ The Community of John The Christology of John ¿¿¿ VOLUME 3, PART 2: ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, PAULINE LETTERS, NON-PAULINE LETTERS AND REVELATION ¿¿¿ Acts of the Apostles **¿ Who was this man, Paul? What kind of person was he? ¿¿¿ His Letters, Ist and 2nd Thessalonians ¿¿¿ Ist and 2nd Corinthians ¿¿¿ Galatians and Romans ¿¿¿ Philippians and Colossians ¿*¿ Ephesians and Pastoral Letters ¿*¿ Philemon and Hebrews ¿¿¿ Non-Pauline Letters ¿*¿ Revelation (Apocalypse)
Educated in SS. Peter and Paul Catholic Major Seminary, Ibadan, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Pontifical Lateran University, Rome, Alphonsian Institute of specialization in Moral Theology, Rome, and Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, Joseph | Omoregbe has three doctorate degrees in philosophy, religious studies, and theology respectively. He has taught at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka: University of Lagos, Lagos; University of Swaziland; and National University of Lesotho respectively. He is currently at Augustine University, Ilara-Epe, Nigeria. He is an author of several books in philosophy, religious studies, theology and biblical studies.

Biblical Studies

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