The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa's Wealth by Tom Burgis
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa's Wealth
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Tom Burgis
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The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa's Wealth

Tom Burgis

336 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
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The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other “emerging markets” have transformed their economies, Africa's resource states remained tethered to the bot...

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