Western discourse routinely portrays corruption in Africa as a cultural pathology or a failure of African leadership. This paper challenges that narrative. It advances the thesis that corruption in contemporary Africa is not a result of African agency or culture, but the outcome of Western-imposed consequentialist and statist models designed for extraction, control, and domination. Corruption is not an aberration within African governance but a systemic feature of the centralized, coercive, and fiat-based institutional frameworks transplanted during colonialism and preserved through neocolonial arrangements that serve Western hegemonic interests while producing chronic institutional decay. By reframing corruption as structural injustice embedded in statist governance, fiat monetary systems, and bureaucratic centralization, the paper dismantles racialized corruption narratives and exposes their function as psychological warfare and ideological cover for continued Western domination. The diagnosis is institutional, not cultural: Africa’s corruption crisis originates in Western statist models. The paper presents Africonomics as the principled alternative, underlining that corruption cannot be addressed through technocratic reform or moral lectures; it requires fundamental transformation grounded in sound money, decentralization, voluntary exchange, minimal taxation, and governance rooted in natural-moral law. Africa’s liberation from corruption requires intellectual and institutional decolonization.