But in eastern Congo several rebel commanders disobey orders from Kinshasa, Congo's capital, and still look to their former sponsors in Kigali, Rwanda's capital.
And it is because he understood that people live each day within a variety of value systems that he could write a great poem about how two people could allow appetite, seemingly rational argument and love to lead them to disobey a divine command.
At all banks there is a struggle between head office, which wants to centralise processes, and local staff who are in thrall to the demands of local officials and industrialists and who disobey their branch managers on whom they depend for their promotions at their peril.