An employee at a brewery in Kinshasa rated the aftermath as more catastrophic to the company than the direct violence: It was more the consequences of the pillages that hit Bracongo – the poverty of the people, our friends who buy beer.

Margio […] would go back to their kampong and look for gifts for her.

If ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.

It is believed, owing to the impunctuality of collections, that in no part of the United States does fair lending at private interest, upon real security, net six per cent.