As this timely book shows, similar shadow states are pillaging ... Tom Burgis exposes how the extractive industries have turned into a hideous looting machine, the West guilty of complicity ...

In a new edition of his book The Looting Machine, the author probes the paradox of “the continent that is at once the world’s poorest and, arguably, its richest.” Burgis, a former ...

The process is described in compelling detail by Tom Burgis in his book, The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa’s Wealth. He quotes the World Bank ...

Investigations correspondent at the Financial Times, Tim Burgis, has just published a book titled The Looting Machine. It is a kaleidoscope of the penury of Africa caused by a coalition between an ...

Editorial director Martin Redfern has bought UK and Commonwealth rights for The Looting Machine by Financial ... Redfern said: “Tom’s book is a blistering, page-turning investigation into ...

And indeed, the book begins with a candid foreword about ... that not all financiers or bankers are shady. However, The Looting Machine is by no means a glowing account of the role of business ...