The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth

by Tom Burgis

Book Overview

One of Financial Times' Books of the Year, 2015

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 bottom of the industrial supply chain. While Africa accounts for about 30 per cent of the world's reserves of hydrocarbons and minerals and 14 per...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610397118
• ISBN13: 9781610397117
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.2"