FAILURE IN ACCOUNTABILITY IS A FAILURE OF GOVERNANCE kansmus@gmail.com T here are four pillars of good governance that build, restore, and main public trust which are Transparency, accessibility, responsiveness and accountability. Accountability is a dear issue and is in consonance with the pro national reconstruction philosophy crusade and institutional rearticulation. Devoid of the norm of accountability, African states are still haggling with self created dilemma of failure to smelt a strong iron of elements to decolonise Africa from the horrors of colonialism and the nightmares of neocolonialism. Accountability circumscribes the Democratic values with a function of ingenuity and a normative governance framework that my wananchi granny from the hills of mombokolo will proudly call "good". After independence, and in tandem the Democratic consolidation of uprooting autocratic reigns, accountability could be a switch to the "Africa's third liberation...