Illicit Enrichment and Unexplained Wealth in Africa

This book offers a governance-centred analysis of unexplained wealth regulation in post-colonial states. Moving beyond conventional doctrinal approaches, the book argues that unexplained wealth regimes are not merely technical legal innovations, but diagnostic instruments that expose the institutional and political conditions under which accountability is pursued. Drawing on comparative socio-legal analysis of Nigeria and Kenya, alongside high-capacity jurisdictions such as the United Kingdom…