That's potentially good news, but I'm skeptical much will come of it. Places like Congo are still quite tribal[0], which is one reason for the large amount of c

That's potentially good news, but I'm skeptical much will come of it. Places like Congo are still quite tribal[0], which is one reason for the large amount of corruption. When you get power you hand out benefits to your people. In developed democracies we often think the benefits of democracy are self-evident, but we forget the long process it took for our own societies to get to the relatively uncorrupt, pretty well-functioning bureaucracies we have today. Plus, Congo has almost no state to speak of. The country hardly has a road network and the government has a hard time projecting power outside of the cities. I believe the infrastructure was better in the 60s than it is today, but I would have to check my facts to be sure. [0]: I think this will get misinterpreted by some people. I don't mean it in a derogatory way, but as a description of how society is organized in parts of Africa. People can be grouped into tribes and tend to prefer to grant favors and power to those within their tribe. It's like nepotism on a larger scale.