It’s alarming enough that an exhortation like this should be thought to be necessary, but what is even more worrying is that this section is written only in English. No “Zaïrean”—or Zaïrois, as they actually call themselves—speaks English, or hardly any do. The system by which Zaïre works, and which this card was a wonderfully hopeless attempt to correct, is very simple. Every official you encounter will make life as unpleasant as he possibly can until you pay him to stop it. In U.S. dollars. He then passes you on to the next official, who will be unpleasant to you all over again. By the end
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