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LOOTING MACHINE- PB Paperback – January 1, 2016

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0007523106
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ William Collins of London (January 1, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780007523108
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  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.12 x 0.84 x 7.76 inches
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    Tom Burgis is an award-winning investigative reporter and bestselling author. Based in London after years as a foreign correspondent in South America and Africa, he is a member of The Guardian’s investigations team. He has exposed major corruption scandals, covered terrorist attacks, coups and forgotten conflicts, and traced dirty money from the Kremlin to Washington. His journalism has won awards in the US and Asia and been shortlisted at the British Press Awards, the British Journalism Awards and the European Press Prize.

    Kleptopia: How dirty money is conquering the world, Burgis’s second book, was published in 2020 and became an international bestseller. It exposes the hidden connections that link a massacre on the Kazakh steppe and a stolen election in Zimbabwe to the City of London and, ultimately, the White House. Burgis reveals how the world’s kleptocrats—those who rule through corruption—are uniting and threaten to overwhelm democracy.

    His first book, The Looting Machine, was published in 2015. It revealed how the exploitation of Africa’s vast natural resources condemns the continent to corruption, conflict and poverty. The New York Times called it a ‘brave, defiant book’. It won the Overseas Press Club of America’s award for the year’s best book on international affairs.

    Previously he was an investigative reporter at the Financial Times.

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Marcio
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books I have ever read!
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Inciting writing coupled with deep and thorough research make this book a must read for all, regardless what continent you were born in our reside.
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David Maina Kinyua
4.0 out of 5 stars Best description of the situation in Africa....Elite power capture.
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Very well written and well researched of the most important issue affecting Africa in the 21st century. Corruption and more gory corruption. As an African I am ashamed that looting Africa through well organized international corporations and the local rulers has been around to go on for so long. What kind of a rigged international system allows this to go on for decades, while the majority of the people languish in poverty, pestilence, war, ignorance, diseases and hunger? The local rulers live a life of debauchery, immune from local prosecution processes, and their wealth, looted from mother Africa pads their nests in Europe and other countries. There is little incentive or capacity to change the system internally. The soldiers and security forces are no more than armed militia for the elites, ruthlessly massacring "enemy tribes" and their rivals. All it takes is for the international organizations to bless this arrangement for the looting to continue.
Very well written, and I find myself recommending it to anyone working in Africa trying to understand how to turn the situation around.
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David Napier
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for anyone trying to Africa back on track.
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2015
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A well researched book, easy to read and very entertaining. Some I knew, lots I didn't. I would love Tom Burgis to follow this up with regular updates. A must read for anyone working in Africa.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Looting Machine is a well written documentation of how ...
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The Looting Machine is a well written documentation of how oil and minerals are strangling African countries and delaying their development. It is a must read anti-corruption agencies of government, anti-corruption activists, etc.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, but a bit repetitive after a few chapters
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One cannot fault the author for the sickening parade of graft and embezzlement that he describes. Unfortunately, most of the stories he tells were not news to me and after a while they end up being repetitive. The story is however very well told and the authors has clearly done a great deal of detective work investigating them.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant examination of corruption in Africa
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 8, 2024
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Having seen the poverty in Africa for myself, I am always shocked by the wealth of these nations that flows not to its economy or people but to the pockets of the most corrupt in these countries.
A brilliant insight into how the wealth has been taken for the few and not the many.
I'm doubtful that the resource rich countries will ever be without such levels of corruption as the greed of those in power remains as strong as ever.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Tutto ok 👍🏼
Reviewed in Italy on November 2, 2023
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Soddisfatta dell’acquisto. Arrivato in condizioni perfette. Il libro è in inglese
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5.0 out of 5 stars Räuber in Afrika
Reviewed in Germany on June 18, 2021
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Tom Burgis hat ein Buch über postkoloniale Raubzüge in Afrika geschrieben, das man einem Reporter der Financial Times gar nicht zutraut. Er beschreibt die angelsächsischen, chinesischen und israelischen Netzwerke, die an dieser Ausplünderung des zugleich reichsten und ärmsten Kontinents beteiligt sind. Er nennt auch die afrikanischen Ganoven in Regierungsämtern, die daran beteiligt sind und das endliche Vermögen ihrer Völker in rauschhaften Parties verschleudern. An einer Stelle beschreibt er sogar, wie die Rohstoffgewinnung Afrika am Aufbau von Handwerk und Industrie hindert und vorhandenes Handwerk kaputt gemacht hat. Beeindruckend. Bis Herbst 2021 nur in Englisch lesbar, dann erst auf Deutsch. Uneingeschränkt empfehlenswert. Bis dahin kann man über Afrika auf Deutsch Grill und/oder Gütter lesen, die das Thema ebenfalls systematisch angehen.
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Juhan Leemet
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent book about a rather sad topic
Reviewed in Canada on March 30, 2019
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It has always been a paradox: Africa is so rich in resources, but always remains poor. Why is that? This book suggests that the richness of resources might actually be feeling or "driving" the corruption which results in some unscrupulous locals and foreignors "looting" most/all benefits, while leaving the local population poor, if not actually destitute.

Elsewhere, in TED talks, we are reminded that Africa does not want charity! It merely wants a chance to participate in global commerce and work its way up, like most other (esp. 1st world) countries. It is very hard to do, if someone keeps stealing all of the benefits and profits.
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Reviewed in France on August 17, 2017
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Amazing book - I have bought atleast 15 copies and have given them to friends. Opens up the corruption in African countries and is fascinating to follow the various cases now being challenged ongoing in law by different parties. Well researched and extremely readable. Let us know the next book!
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