The Looting Machine Autobiographies and Self Development Books

An extremely engaging and disturbing work of investigative journalism, The Looting Machine tells the tale of the systematic theft of Africa’s natural wealth in the post-colonial world. Burgis is incredibly well-researched and thorough in his investigation of the ‘looting machines’ which make some of the wealthiest nations in the world, the poorest. This text is informative but engaging- and I’ve come away from it not only with an understanding of the mechanism of this corruption, but also a real sense of the key players involved. At times it was dense and bleak reading- but on the whole was very enlightening. We are all complicit