Congo Masquerade
            
                African Arguments
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9781848138377
Description: In this scathing study of catastrophic aid inefficiency, Trefon evaluates the imported template of reforms pieced together to introduce democracy and improve the wellbeing of the Congolese. He demonstrates that it has been an almost unmitigated failure due to the ingrained political culture of corruption amongst the Congolese elite, abetted by the complicity and incompetence of international partners.