Dictatorland
The Men Who Stole Africa
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Dictatorland
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Narrated by:
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Hamilton McLeod
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By:
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Paul Kenyon
About this listen
Bloomsbury presents Dictatorland by Paul Kenyon, read by Hamilton McLeod.
A Financial Times Book of the Year
'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express
'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times
'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched' Irish Times
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.
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'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express
'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times
'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched' Irish Times
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- Janine Busbridge
- 18-02-25
Phenomenal
A brilliant and at times harrowing chronicle of how a continent has been systematically abused by its ruling elite.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Lucia
- 26-01-24
The way it was read.
I had read this book before.I found it to be an easy read. The Paragraphs in just the right places to keep the heavy content in bite sized pieces.
This man, HAMILTON, chosen by AUDIBLE to read it., was a most irritating person. He read this book as though it was Treasure Island. Too much Expression and RIDICULOUS CHARACTER VOICES.
In future, I will definitely listen before I buy.
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