The looting machine : warlords, oligarchs, corporations, smugglers, and the theft of Africa's wealth / Tom Burgis.

An investigative journey into the ways the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, 'The Looting Machine' sheds light on the shadowy networks that connect Goldman Sachs, BP, the Hong Kong underworld and the murderous cabals that rule some oil states. Africa: the world's poorest continen...

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Main Author: Burgis, Tom (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : PublicAffairs, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A curse of riches
  • Futungo, Inc.
  • "It is forbidden to piss in the park"
  • Incubators of poverty
  • Guanxi
  • When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled
  • A bridge to Beijing
  • Finance and cyanide
  • God has nothing to do with it
  • Black gold
  • The new money kings
  • Epilogue: Complicity
  • Afterword.