What is Forsyth's Dogs of War happened?

I recently reread for the 100th time Frederick Forsyth's "Dogs of War". The basic plot was a corrupt businessman finds out that there is a rich mineral deposit in a small corrupt African country. He plots to hire a group of mercenaries to replace the current insane dictator with another dictator. The new dictator will sell the mineral rights for a pittance and a large bribe. The corrupt businessman will then resell the rights for a fortune. However the mercenaries after over throwing the insane dictator, instead kill the corrupt dictator and replace him with a committee of National Reconciliation. The key to this a minority group in the country who are educated and provide support for the coup.

In real life, the book is supposedly based on a plot to over throw the dictator of Equatorial Guinea and provide a sanctuary for the Igbo people who were defeated in the Biafran War.

What would have happen in Africa if this had actually happened? Would things be better in any way?

Stubear1012
 
Realistically, the mercenaries would probably wind up being a lot less competent than advertised and get slaughtered. Ignoring that, it'd be hard to do worse than Nguema.
 
Long Live President Kimba!

If an Okoye-like regime were to prove successful perhaps an "African Spring" in the '80s
 
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