Political Culture, Use of Power and Human Capital Flight in Africa: Expectations and Threats to Sustainable Regional Development
Conference: ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)
Presenter(s): Chinenye Viola Udeze, Innocent Okwu Opurum
Tags: 2025 Owerri Alvan Ikoku Federal University of Education Imo State Chinenye Viola Udeze Innocent Okwu Opurum
Abstract
The study examined the nexus between political culture ,use of political power and human capital flight ,by situating the expectations and threats of their interplay on the continent’s quest for sustainable development. Descriptive –correlation research design was adopted to carry out a quantitative study based on survey data collected from primary and secondary sources. Guided by the complementary theories of institutionalism and developmental state framework , the data collected were analyzed through descriptive correlation and inferential statistical tools. The study revealed that human capital flight in Africa follow a structural pattern of astronomical increase annually, and significantly caused by abusive use of political power. The greatest threats to human capital retention in Africa are the institutions of government and the leaders who pilot the affairs of the states. Political culture is negatively associated with human capital flight in Africa There is a positive relationship between level of abusive use of power among the regional clusters of Africa and annual distribution of level of human capital flight in the region . Since a nation’s level of abusive use of power in Africa determined her annual distribution of level of human capital flight between 2014 and 2024.The expectation is that brain drain reversal is possible in Africa through effective implementation of developmental state programmes.
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