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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?