La crise de la gouvernementalité dans les états d’Afrique noire francophone : une lecture de corruption et gouvernance de Lucien Ayissi

Abstract

The State in the French-speaking postcolonial space has become a real surface of predation due to the corruption committed by crooked agents. In analogy to the ideal Platonic city governed by reason and justice, the concept of governance opposes to the “appetitive preferences of predatory rationality” the principles of isonomy or equality before the law and isology or equality of opinion which, as part of our work consists of teaching leaders to consider the person of the other as an end and never as a means in the management of state affairs. In other words, the sense of responsibility must be the cornerstone that governs the rationality of the rule of law, because as long as common sense remains disguised and governance is undermined, the immediate consequence is underdevelopment, it is therefore plausible that this Cartesian common sense once again becomes the light and the infallible guide which must bring back good governance to the rule of law. Thus, if the governance of the States of French-speaking black Africa is qualitatively and rationally articulated with the requirements of the rule of law, the sustainable and integral development of Africa will then be ensured. Thus, the philosophical problem that we intend to resolve consists of the search for the foundations and mechanisms capable of accounting for the decay of the State. What are the structural and institutional foundations of the governmentality crisis in French-speaking black Africa? How does Lucien AYISSI address this problem of crisis of governmentality in his writings? What refoundation materials should be considered to cure French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa of this almost centuries-old evil? The analytical-critical method allows us to demonstrate the validity of these hypotheses.