9. Scholarships and invitations: Offering full scholarship to children of African politicians is still one of the most effective corruption schemes used by Western regimes to corrupt local elite and governments in Africa.
Most African families still dream to send their kids to study abroad, specially in Europe and the United States. For Western regimes, having the children of corrupt Africans rulers in custody from three to five years represents very good bargaining power for mining rights, access to public markets and infrastructure projects allocation.
One international organization director I know used to offer scholarship to African representatives before annual votes on the organization budget and approval of independent accounting audit documents. The scheme helped him so well. He became very popular and always got favorable votes for his administration.
Invitations to conferences and seminars are another clever scheme often used to enlist and recruit emerging young African leaders into to the Western influence network. The young leaders are pampered and would receive acknowledgement or awards beyond their real achievement.
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