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Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa

Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa - Paperback

by Paul Kenyon
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Paul KenyonPublish date:2019-06-01Pages:480
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Head of ZeusISBN-13:9781784972141ISBN-10:1784972142UPC:9781784972141Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:World, Africa, Social HistoryBook Topic:AfricanSize:7.80 x 5.10 x 1.20 inchesWeight:0.7Product ID:SCW1G9WCE8

A Financial Times Book of the Year
'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express

'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times

'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched' Irish Times

The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces. In Equatorial Guinea, the paranoid despot who thought Hitler was the saviour of Africa and waged a relentless campaign of terror against his own people. The Libyan army officer who authored a new work of political philosophy, The Green Book, and lived in a tent with a harem of female soldiers, running his country like a mafia family business.

And behind these almost incredible stories of fantastic violence and excess lie the dark secrets of Western greed and complicity, the insatiable taste for chocolate, oil, diamonds and gold that has encouraged dictators to rule with an iron hand, siphoning off their share of the action into mansions in Paris and banks in Zurich and keeping their people in dire poverty.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Head of ZeusISBN-13:9781784972141ISBN-10:1784972142UPC:9781784972141Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:World, Africa, Social HistoryBook Topic:AfricanSize:7.80 x 5.10 x 1.20 inchesWeight:0.7Product ID:SCW1G9WCE8

Paul Kenyon is a distinguished BBC correspondent and BAFTA award-winning journalist and author. He has reported from danger-zones around the world for BBC Panorama, pushing the boundaries of investigative journalism and asking the questions many wouldn't dare - from tackling Gaddafi's son in a cage full of lions, to secretly filming Iran's secret nuclear sites. He's even faked his own death in a Haitian funeral parlour to expose a group of fraudsters. Kenyon is the recipient of an Association of International Broadcasters Award, three Royal Television Society awards, and is the author of Dictatorland, a Financial Times Book of the Year in 2018. He lives in London with his wife, Flavia.
Paul Kenyon is a distinguished BBC correspondent and BAFTA award-winning journalist and author. He has reported from danger-zones around the world for BBC Panorama, pushing the boundaries of investigative journalism and asking the questions many wouldn't dare - from tackling Gaddafi's son in a cage full of lions, to secretly filming Iran's secret nuclear sites. He's even faked his own death in a Haitian funeral parlour to expose a group of fraudsters. Kenyon is the recipient of an Association of International Broadcasters Award, three Royal Television Society awards, and is the author of Dictatorland, a Financial Times Book of the Year in 2018. He lives in London with his wife, Flavia.


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