Reply #9: The African nations may be trying to make a show of it,

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but they're complicit in the bribery.

My first hand experience is in the grain trade. We'll load a ship with aid cargo, given free to the receiving country. Bribes still have to be paid to government authorities, local port authorities, and even the stevedores to get the stuff unloaded to feed their hungry population. The shipping companies have an 'expditer' who is essentially a black bag man to hand out a little walkin' around money to make sure the ship gets unloaded. It's not very different in parts of Central and South America and parts of the Far East, either.

Here it's not bribery-it's "speech." I'm with you on the honesty part, though.