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02687aam a2200409Ii 4500 001 4680637AD81B11E884A007FC96128E48 003 SILO 005 20181025010028 008 180208t20182018enkabf e b 001 0deng d 010 $a 2017491822 020 $a 1784972134 020 $a 9781784972134 035 $a (OCoLC)1022267301 040 $a CDX $b eng $e rda $c CDX $d UAB $d CDX $d YDX $d EUM $d BDX $d DLC $d NZGPL $d OCLCF $d GP5 $d ZVR $d OCLCQ $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a f------ 050 4 $a DT30.5 $b .K46 2018 082 04 $a 321.9/096 $2 23 100 1 $a Kenyon, Paul, $d 1966- $e author. 245 10 $a Dictatorland : $b the men who stole Africa / $c Paul Kenyon ; maps by Jeff Edwards. 246 30 $a Men who stole Africa 264 1 $a London : $b Head of Zeus Ltd, $c 2018. 300 $a xix, 453 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; $c 25 cm 500 $a Map on lining papers. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-441) and index. 505 00 $t Part Four: A modern slavery. Eritrea. $t Part One: Gold and diamonds. Congo ; $t Zimbabwe -- $t Part Two: Oil. Before the dictators ; $t Libya ; $t Nigeria ; $t Equatorial Guinea -- $t Part Three: Chocolate. Before the dictators ; $t CoÌte d'Ivoire -- $t Part Four: A modern slavery. Eritrea. 520 8 $a "The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-story-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 savior 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 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 have 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Dictatorship $z Africa. 650 0 $a Dictatorship $x Economic aspects $z Africa. 650 0 $a Political leadership $z Africa. 651 0 $a Africa $x Politics and government $y 1960- 700 1 $a Edwards, Jeff, $e cartographer. 941 $a 3 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010020512.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20190524010243.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20181025010056.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4680637AD81B11E884A007FC96128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search