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    Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa
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    Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa
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    Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa

    Written by Paul Kenyon

    Narrated by Hamilton McLeod

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    A vivid, heartbreaking portrait of the fate that so many African countries suffered after independence.

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Audio
    Release dateMay 7, 2020
    ISBN9781789549942
    Author

    Paul Kenyon

    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. 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. He lives in London with his wife, Flavia.

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    • 5/5
      One of the best. Paul Kenyon’s exposes he do fail to disappoint. What has befallen Africa over the centuries in terms of theft and systemic corruption defies the imagination. It truly shows the dark heart of sinful, evil man. One of the best!!!
    • 5/5
      Descriptions of history as well as the dictators sets scenes of a drama which is often brutal and sad but fascinating
    • 5/5
      as someone who lived in Africa 8 years the book enhanced my understanding of the ruler psyche! Excellent listen!
    • 5/5
      Very insightful read worth every minute. Especially the part about ivory coast. Gave a different perspective on post African independence

      The icing on the cake was by the narrator who was so captivating!!
    • 5/5
      I'm absolutely speechless! Such violence, horror and brutality! South Africa's story is simply a replay of what's been done before, our leaders chose their mentors well.


      One of the best books I've laid my hands on this year! Hamilton McLeod's perfomence of the audiobook is just as brilliant! An excerpt from chater 7, and this is not the worst of the attrocities;

      "The trade is normally tolerated as an inevitable consequence of poverty coupled with a global demand for a commodity whose production is reliant on cheap labour. Just as Henry Nevinson observed youths being sold to Portuguese traders in Angola a century ago, a child is still, today, the final saleable asset for many in Burkina Faso."

      Great book from Paul Kenyon, elevated my respect for passionate and competent journalists as Oliver Bullough's Moneyland did. If I didn't live in the middle of one of these attrocities in the making I'd think the contents are the stuff of fiction.
    • 5/5
      Very interesting read.. a must read for anyone curious about African history based on different countries... well researched and author was also simply am amazing ..!!!
    • 5/5
      Amazing insight into why Africa is the way it is