Table of Contents: 1) Managing for Mediocrity; 2) The Economist Managers; 3) Confucius and the Bank; 4) Feeding the Beast; 5) Groping in the Dark; 6) And Darkness was Upon the Face of the Implementers; 7) A Very Special Account; 8) Playing with the Books; 9) C is for Corruption; 10) As the Train Left the Station; 11) A New Regime; 12) The Potemkin Village; 13) Death by a Thousand Cuts; 14) Alhaji the Car Dealer; 15) Bigger than Wal-Mart; 16) Lamin Tells All; 17) In the Eye of the Beholder; 18) And the Dance Begins; 19) The Fifty Year Dilemma; 20) The Cost of Corruption; 21) So Easy to Steal; 22) The Essence of Knowledge; 23) Reporting the Truth; 24) Money Can't Buy Happiness; 25) Taming the Gods of Lending.