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Dictatorland : the men who stole Africa / Paul Kenyon ; maps by Jeff Edwards.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kenyon, Paul, 1966- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dictatorship--Africa.
- Dictatorship.
- Dictatorship--Economic aspects--Africa.
- Political leadership--Africa.
- Political leadership.
- Africa.
- Africa--Politics and government--1960-.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 453 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Men who stole Africa
- Place of Publication:
- London : Head of Zeus Ltd, 2018.
- Summary:
- "The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-story-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 savior 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 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 have encouraged dictators to rule with an iron hand, siphoning off their share of the action into mansions in Paris and banks in Zürich and keeping their people in dire poverty"-- Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. One Gold and Diamonds
- 1. Congo
- 2. Zimbabwe
- pt. Two Oil
- 3. Before the Dictators
- 4. Libya
- 5. Nigeria
- 6. Equatorial Guinea
- pt. Three Chocolate
- 7. Before the Dictators
- 8. Cote d'Ivoire
- pt. Four A Modern Slavery
- 9. Eritrea.
- Notes:
- Map on lining papers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-441) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781784972134
- 1784972134
- 9781788541909
- 1788541901
- 1784972142
- 9781784972141
- OCLC:
- 1022267301
- Publisher Number:
- 99990711371
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