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The astounding, never-before-told story of how an ingenious Ghanaian con artist ran one of the 20th century's longest and most audacious frauds.
When Ghana declared its independence from Britain in 1957, it immediately became a target for home-grown opportunists determined to lay hold of whatever assets colonialism hadn't already stripped. A nationalist military coup ousted the new nation's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, then falsely accused him of seizing and hiding the country's gold overseas.
Into the space stepped one of history's most determined and charismatic scammers, John Ackah Blay-Miezah - a con man to rival the trickster god Anansi. Born into rural poverty on the Gold Coast, Blay-Miezah returned to Ghana and declared himself the custodian of an alleged Nkrumah trust fund worth millions. You, too, could claim a piece, if only you would help him rescue it - with a small investment. Over the 1970s and '80s, he grew his scam to epic proportions, amassing hundreds of millions of pounds from his thousands of marks. Many raised their suspicions (including Shirley Temple Black and Henry Kissinger), but Blay-Miezah continued to live in luxury, deceiving lawyers, financiers, businessmen and investigators from around the globe.
In Anansi's Gold, Yepoka Yeebo chases the ever-wilder trail of Blay-Miezah - from the smartest suites in the best London hotels to a small football club in Ghana where the fans learned to chant his name - revealing the untold story of the grifter who beat the West at its own thieving game.
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Yepoka Yeebo's work has appeared in the Guardian, Huffington Post, The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Quartz, among other publications. A graduate of Queen Mary College and Columbia University's School of Journalism, she divides her time between Ghana, Bristol and New York. Anansi's Gold is her first book.
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Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
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Hardback. Etat : Fair. "Catch Me if You Can meets Coming to America in this epic tale of one of the greatest scammers of all time."-NPR Shortlisted for the Mark Lynton History Prize * A New York Times Notable Book of the Year * A New Yorker, NPR, Newsweek, The Economist, TIME, Slate, and WIRED Best Book of the Year The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of the 20th century's longest-running and most spectacular frauds. When Ghana won its independence from Britain in 1957, it instantly became a target for home-grown opportunists and rapacious Western interests determined to snatch any assets that colonialism hadn't already stripped. A CIA-funded military junta ousted the new nation's inspiring president, Kwame Nkrumah, then falsely accused him of hiding the country's gold overseas. Into this big lie stepped one of history's most charismatic scammers, a con man to rival the trickster god Anansi. Born into poverty in Ghana and trained in the United States, John Ackah Blay-Miezah declared himself custodian of an alleged Nkrumah trust fund worth billions. You, too, could claim a piece--if only you would "invest" in Blay-Miezah's fictitious efforts to release the equally fictitious fund. Over the 1970s and '80s, he and his accomplices-including Ghanaian state officials and Nixon's former attorney general--scammed hundreds of millions of dollars out of thousands of believers. Blay-Miezah lived in luxury, deceiving Philadelphia lawyers, London financiers, and Seoul businessmen alike, all while eluding his FBI pursuers. American prosecutors called his scam "one of the most fascinating--and lucrative--in modern history." In Anansi's Gold, Yepoka Yeebo chases Blay-Miezah's ever-wilder trail and discovers, at long last, what really happened to Ghana's missing wealth. She unfolds a riveting account of Cold War entanglements, international finance, and postcolonial betrayal, revealing how what we call "history" writes itself into being, one lie at a time. Winner of the Jhalak Prize * Winner of the Plutarch Award for Biography. N° de réf. du vendeur CIN1635574730A
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