Overseas Press Club Award Winner 2016

A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, 'The Looting Machine' explores the dark underbelly of the global economy.

Informationen zum Autor Tom Burgis won a fellowship at the Financial Times in 2006, and has worked on the paper ever since. He has reported from London, Brussels, South America and Africa, writing on the privation and conflict that accompanies the resource trade. His work has appeared in the Telegraph, the Independent, the Observer, the New Statesman, the Big Issue and Open Democracy, and in 2010 he was shortlisted for 'Young Journalist of the Year' at the British Press Awards. Klappentext Now in paperback, this looks at the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, and explores the dark underbelly of the global economy. Drawn from a six-year investigation into the secret corners of the trade by an award-winning journalist. Zusammenfassung Overseas Press Club Award Winner 2016 A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, 'The Looting Machine' explores the dark underbelly of the global economy.

Klappentext

Now in paperback, this looks at the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, and explores the dark underbelly of the global economy. Drawn from a six-year investigation into the secret corners of the trade by an award-winning journalist.

Zusammenfassung
Overseas Press Club Award Winner 2016 A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, 'The Looting Machine' explores the dark underbelly of the global economy.