Researching Africa and the offshore world

ABSTRACT One of the key features today's global economy is an ‘offshore world’ financial structures, institutions and techniques designed to provide secrecy, asset protection tax exemption. While its worldwide impact very significant, Africa affected unusual extent by strategies avoidance/evasion, outward flows (both legal illegal) corruption enabled offshore world. This corroborated a number quantitative studies capital flight as well influential investigations such Pandora Papers, Panama Papers Luanda Leaks. The world's limited presence in study contemporary African politics, political international relations therefore striking. purpose this exploratory paper highlight gap, preliminary analysis, suggest that politics insertion merits more attention from scholars politics.