How Western Greed Devastates Africa

The Takeaway | Apr 21, 2015

The relationship between Africa's natural resources, and the human suffering that has historically seemed to follow, is the subject of Financial Times Reporter Tom Burgis's new book, "The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth."

He joins The Takeaway to weigh in on his new work, and how the trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa.

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