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The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa´s Wealth
Tom Burgis
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Description for The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa´s Wealth
Paperback. A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, 'The Looting Machine' explores the dark underbelly of the global economy. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; KNAT; KNBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 230.
Overseas Press Club Award Winner 2016 A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, `The Looting Machine' explores the dark underbelly of the global economy. `The Looting Machine' is a searing expose of the global web of traders, bankers, middlemen, despots and corporate raiders that is pillaging Africa's vast natural wealth. From the killing fields of Congo to the crude-slicked creeks of Nigeria, a ... Read more
Overseas Press Club Award Winner 2016 A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, `The Looting Machine' explores the dark underbelly of the global economy. `The Looting Machine' is a searing expose of the global web of traders, bankers, middlemen, despots and corporate raiders that is pillaging Africa's vast natural wealth. From the killing fields of Congo to the crude-slicked creeks of Nigeria, a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007523108
SKU
V9780007523108
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-98
About Tom Burgis
Tom Burgis won a fellowship at the Financial Times in 2006, and has worked on the paper ever since. He has reported from London, Brussels, South America and Africa, writing on the privation and conflict that accompanies the resource trade. His work has appeared in ... Read more
Reviews for The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa´s Wealth
`Revealing ... Explains lucidly how the oil and mineral bonanza subverts societies ... particularly acute in analysing how multinationals connive in this institutionalised theft ... This intelligent book should give us all pause for thought when we fill our cars with petrol' Sunday Times `A ... Read more