Master of Public Administration (African Public Administration)

Overview

Public administration fails in the gap between the organogram and the Tuesday afternoon when the registry key is with someone on leave. This MPA starts in that gap. You will map a service journey, cost a delay, and write a circular a directorate can issue without pretending you hold a gazette. African Future University centres African administrative practice: payroll integrity, devolution disputes, traditional authorities as parallel governance, and donor projects that ignore the government calendar. AfCFTA and regional files appear as inter-ministerial coordination problems, not as a claim that graduates work for continental secretariats. The award is academic. It is not a UN job, not a political appointment, and not a professional licence. It is for officers who must keep a public process honest when the generator dies and the minister wants a brief by morning. You will compare a capital directorate with a devolved office that still moves files by motorcycle. Identity-checked exams test circulars and process maps, not speeches about transformation. The MPA remains an academic award, not a gazette. Study is tuition-free online aside from the examination fee, including for officers posted outside the capital. Master of Public Administration (African Public Administration) is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 18 months, and the credit total is 36. Students move from African Public Organisations as They Run through African Public Organisations as They Run; Payroll Integrity and Ghost-Worker Controls; Devolution, Prefects, and Parallel Authorities; Public Financial Management for Non-Accountants; Procurement Files versus Ceremony; Administrative Law as Daily Practice, and finish on Process Diagnosis. Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result. Reading is a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. The artefact a marker expects is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Map a public service process including informal workarounds Write a bilingual administrative circular or brief Interrogate payroll and procurement files for integrity risks Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass. The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.

Thirty-six credits: administrative systems, money and procurement, digital public services, and a process-improvement capstone. Identity-checked exams. No civil-service appointment is conferred.