foreignaffairs.com: The Plunder of Africa
howard w. french erklärt, warum reiche länder (also wir) afrika nach wie vor ausbeuten und untervorteilen. eigentlich geht’s um tom burgis buch [-werbelink] the looting machine, aber howard w. french ist so freundlich uns burgis buch nachvollziehbar und differenziert zusammenzufassen. (vielleicht vertont bono mit seiner band das buch ja demnächst mal?)
Burgis, who writes about Africa for the Financial Times, brings the tools of an investigative reporter and the sensibility of a foreign correspondent to his story, narrating scenes of graft in the swamps of Nigeria’s oil-producing coastal delta region and in the lush mining country of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, while also sniffing out corruption in the lobbies of Hong Kong skyscrapers, where shell corporations engineer murky deals that earn huge sums of money for a host of shady international players. Although Burgis’ emphasis is ultimately on Africa’s exploitation by outsiders, he never loses sight of local culprits.