Anansi's gold : the man who swindled the world
Yeebo, Yepoka2024
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When Ghana declared independence from Britain in 1957, it immediately became a target for opportunists determined to lay hold of whatever assets colonialism hadn't already stripped. The military ousted the new nation's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, then falsely accused him of stealing the country's gold and hiding it overseas. Into this story stepped one of history's most charismatic scammers, John Ackah Blay-Miezah - a con man to rival the trickster god Anansi. Born into poverty, Blay-Miezah declared himself the custodian of an alleged Nkrumah trust fund worth billions. 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 thousands of marks all over the world.
Main title:
Anansi's gold : the man who swindled the world / Yepoka Yeebo.
Author:
Yeebo, Yepoka, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2024.
Collation:
xiii, 378 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781526668578 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
364.163092920 BLAB BLAB/BLAYBLA920 YEE920 BLAY364.163 YEEB364.163092 YEE
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2643462