Regardless, the country is riven by conflict with two rival governments and parliaments, while well-armed militias and Islamists jostle for power, plunder national wealth and terrify residents.
His confused theology and unrealistic military objectives are elaborate justifications for his refusal to give up his power, plunder, and cult of personality.
From Congo, Rwanda is seen as a belligerent power plundering its wealth.
It was a Tory MP who summed it up most succinctly: "Feudal power plundering the public purse".
While some argue that China is a 21st Century partner for development and a unique catalyst for growth, critics fear that China is a new colonial power, plundering Africa's natural resources and exacerbating existing patterns of corruption and inequality.
Cutting across the orchestrated glorification of power and plunder, he wrote of the monumental folly of the Trojan War, supposedly fought over a bedizened, sensuous, and totally guiltless Helen of Troy.
He had promised not to use Liverpool's greater purchasing power to plunder his former club, but it seems that Swansea, hard-pressed for cash in the big league, was only too willing to sell the player who Rodgers believes made the whole team tick.
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight Alexandra Fuller Picador £15.99, pp310 Mugabe: Power and Plunder in Zimbabwe Martin Meredith Public Affairs £15.99, pp243 VS Naipaul, in his 1971 Booker Prize-winning novel In a Free State, offered a vision of the future for whites in sub-Saharan Africa in his portrayal of a European couple in flight from civil war.
As the Chinese economy has surged, senior Party officials have used their monopoly on power to plunder billions from the public purse, many hiding their fortunes in offshore accounts and foreign assets.
It turned out to refer to a speech by Mr Ahmadinejad, lashing out at the minority of world powers who plunder the wealth of a majority of countries.
From then on, though, the innings was perfectly paced with 52 coming off his final 26 deliveries as the Dutch showed how to make good use of the final power play – plundering 50 from five overs towards the end.
