Across Africa, getting elected is becoming an expensive business - and critics warn it's pricing out capable leaders and fuelling corruption. In Accra, Ghana, a major regional convening wraps up tomorrow: the High-Level Regional Convening on the Financialisation of Politics in Africa, bringing together government officials, anti-corruption bodies, electoral experts and civil society to confront the growing role of money in politics. It follows a landmark UN resolution on political finance transparency adopted late last year, and comes as the African Union works on a continental model law on political financing. I spoke to one of the delegates Professor Henry Kwasi Prempeh, Executive Director of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development 

<p>Across Africa, getting elected is becoming an expensive business - and critics warn it's pricing out capable leaders and fuelling corruption. In Accra, Ghana, a major regional convening wraps up tomorrow: the High-Level Regional Convening on the Financialisation of Politics in Africa, bringing together government officials, anti-corruption bodies, electoral experts and civil society to confront the growing role of money in politics. It follows a landmark UN resolution on political finance transparency adopted late last year, and comes as the African Union works on a continental model law on political financing. I spoke to one of the delegates Professor Henry Kwasi Prempeh, Executive Director of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development&nbsp;</p>