Tom Burgis

Broschiertes Buch

The Looting Machine

Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth

Beschreibung

An “impressive” (Wall Street Journal) exposé of  twenty-first century individuals and companies who have become obscenely rich from the resource trade in Africa Africa is the world’s poorest continent and, arguably, its richest. In The Looting Machine, Tom Burgis takes readers on a gripping journey into the world of the magnates and militiamen, the despots and jet-setting executives who gorge on Africa’s vast stocks of oil, gas, metals, and precious stones. Combining deep reporting with an action-packed narrative, Burgis presents a blistering investigation of the plunder of a continent and the terrible human toll.

Autor

Tom Burgis has been tenacious and intrepid in confronting the powerful vested interests -- corporate, military, financial and political -- that have fed to excess off Africa's riches. He has been reporting for the Financial Times for the last eight years, writing a series of prizewinning investigative reports from Johannesburg and Lagos. He was the winner of the FT's second annual Jones-Mauthner Memorial Prize for his superb reporting and exposÃ(c)of corruption, and the Jerwood Award for a nonfiction book in progress for The Looting Machine. He was shortlisted as a young journalist of the year for his Africa reports. The Looting Machine is his first book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: PublicAffairs
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 141mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9781610397117
• ISBN-10: 1610397118
• Artikelnr.: 44499857

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'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 powerful case, through anecdote and evidence, that the dirty trade in raw materials serves individuals' own enrichment' The Times

'[Burgis] presents a lively portrait of the rapacious "looting machine" ... a rich collage of examples showing the links between corrupt companies and African elites' Economist

'A great scrapbook of exploitation. Burgis has the good sense not to present it in an alarmist way, but with an

understatement that is far more powerful ... [it] is in part a means of self-exoneration, a way of making amends to those he ultimately could not help ... He has done a service to some of the world's poorest people' FinancialTimes

'Excellent. Burgis ensures that we don't stop wondering who does what in Africa and how we are all party to what Western "investors" are up to. The post-colonial corruption and rape of African resource to the benefit of western consumption is still alive and horribly well' Jon Snow

'Burgis has managed to uncover a system responsible for the wholesale looting of Africa's mineral resources for the benefit of oligarchic and state interests around the world. Burgis, a gifted young journalist, has tracked down all these characters across some of Africa's most dangerous hotspots and beyond. Vivid, eye-popping and even at times very funny' Misha Glenny, author of 'McMafia'

'Makes an important case colourfully, convincingly and at times courageously as he confronts some of those involved in the pillaging' Observer

'[An] excellent, finely reported book ... The great value lies in its fresh detail, storytelling and the characters Burgis introduces. Crammed with colour and lively investigative reporting' Literary Review

'[A] major contribution' TLS