Book Review: The Looting Machine: Warlords, tycoons, smugglers, and the systematic theft of Africa’s wealth
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Africa, Angola, bandit, Beny Steinmetz, Black Economic Empowerment, blood diamond, Captain Dadis Camara, china, corruption, Dan Gertler, diamond, diamonds, dictators, DRC, financial, Financial Times, FT, Futungo, globalisation, guinea, Israel, Joseph Kabila, Lonmin, Luanda, Marikana, mining, Nigeria, oil, oil and mining, Operation No Return, platinum, predator elite, predatory elite, Queensway Group, resource curse, Robert Mugabe, Sam Pa, shadow states, Smugglers, South Africa, The Looting Machine, theft, Tom Burgis, Tycoons, Warlords, wealth, Zimbabwe
Paul Adams is full of praise for the way Tom Burgis has uncovered the secretive networks that control Africa’s natural resources and fuel its conflicts.