The article contextualizes the guidelines of public administration within selected African community values. The fact that it is the guidelines that are contextualized and not values within the guideline is fundamental to the delimitation and the articulation of the identified problem. Importantly, it is the cultural value aspects that inform the guidelines and not vice versa. The article is on the selected African values in that there could be other values that are not necessarily referred to in this work. The selection of the values in question is not based on the assumption that they are of the first class importance in relation to those that are not a point of reference, rather they are selected to circumscribe and locate this inquiry relevantly and appropriately. The article provides conceptual demonstrable evidence pertaining the African cultures and values, and navigates the contextual formulation of the guidelines to be obser