Title: Wealth, Power and the Architecture of Avoidance
Subtitle: Understanding High Net Worth Individuals, Wealth Management, and Tax Compliance in Africa
Subject Classification:  Economics and Finance, Politics and Government, African Studies  
BIC Classification: KCF, JPA
BISAC Classification: BUS068000, POL023000, SOC042000
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Sep 2026
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-80866-117-4
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-80866-118-1

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Description

Wealth, Power and the Architecture of Avoidance asks a simple question: why do African states so often fail to see and tax the wealth created within their own economies? The book traces African wealth from its historical foundations through contemporary forms of accumulation, ownership and concealment. It examines how high net worth individuals use companies, trusts, offshore structures, property, private investment vehicles, professional advisers and emerging digital assets to manage wealth, sometimes legitimately and sometimes to weaken the connection between private accumulation and public obligation. Its central argument is that the taxation problem is not merely a shortage of technical rules. It is an architecture of invisibility sustained by fragmented public data, legal complexity, global financial secrecy, professional enablers and unequal political power. Moving from analysis to application, the book develops a nine dimension framework for assessing HNWI compliance risk and introduces the HNWI Risk Profile Explorer, a practical digital tool containing ninety two weighted indicators. It concludes with a legislative and institutional reform agenda for beneficial ownership, offshore income, investment migration, artificial intelligence generated wealth and the rebuilding of Africa’s fiscal social contract.

Biography

Author(s):  Dr Lyla Latif is a global specialist in tax and technology governance, focusing on advancing redistributive public finance for shared human development. Her work supports governments, particularly Ministries of Finance and revenue authorities, in designing effective tax policy and strengthening domestic resource mobilisation.

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