The Human Cost of Corruption
Language: English
Published by Mbida Mbida Camille, 2025
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- Title
- The Human Cost of Corruption
- Author
- Camille, Mbida Mbida
- Publisher
- Mbida Mbida Camille
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798233092466
Every year, billions of CFA francs are committed to public projects meant to improve people's lives. Yet in many countries, poverty endures, hospitals lack basic resources, schools fall into disrepair, and hope steadily erodes. Where does the money go? And above all, who truly pays the price of corruption?
The Human Cost of Corruption is a powerful and deeply human essay that explores the real consequences of the embezzlement of public funds on the daily lives of citizens. Far removed from abstract figures and official rhetoric, this book gives voice to bodies, to broken lives, to lost opportunities. It shows how corruption does not merely steal money, but also dignity, health, education, and the future itself.
Through a rigorous yet accessible analysis, the author lays bare the mechanisms of corruption-its networks, its impunity-and, above all, its direct impact on the most vulnerable: women, children, youth, and impoverished communities. He exposes a silent, slow, but relentless form of violence-one that kills without weapons and without trial.
This work goes beyond denunciation. It questions collective silence, fear, and resignation, while opening paths toward renewal grounded in truth, civic responsibility, and the restoration of trust.
Engaged, clear-eyed, and universal, The Human Cost of Corruption speaks to all who refuse to believe that injustice is inevitable, and who understand that to speak out is already a form of resistance.
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About the Author
Mbida Mbida Camille est une voix éclectique de la littérature contemporaine camerounaise. Auteur prolifique, il puise son inspiration dans le tumulte des villes africaines et la beauté silencieuse de ses racines.
À travers ses romans et chroniques sociales, comme Douala la nuit, Olive le jour ou Les Larmes de la République, il dépeint avec une lucidité saisissante les réalités politiques et humaines de l'Afrique centrale. Mais Mbida Mbida Camille est aussi un poète de l'âme (L'écho de ma terre), capable de transformer la nostalgie et l'identité en vers universels.
Écrivain polyvalent, il refuse de se laisser enfermer dans un seul genre, explorant tour à tour le fantastique, la fiction politique et la poésie. Il écrit pour témoigner, pour émouvoir, et pour offrir à ses lecteurs une fenêtre ouverte sur un Cameroun aux mille visages.
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