Anansi's Gold
The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
British-Ghanaian journalist Yepoka Yeebo delivers an unparalleled account of the legendary John Ackah Blay-Miezah, a pioneer of advance fee fraud notorious for swindling heads of state and international moguls in the post-independence decades.
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It seems impossible, unreal, too fantastic to be true...but it happened.
A petty con man emerged from sheer poverty in his native Ghana and climbed all the way up around the world and almost came to be his country's President!
A story that became legend and forever bound a country to the most infamous of financial schemes, the Oman Ghana Trust Fund, from which all other African scams came to be.
This reconstruction of those events is more enthralling than any novel, because if it's true that ‘friends in high places' helped this man -who, also, seemed to have the Devil's Luck by his side!- to escape the law, it's also true that his alleged ‘victims' of this monstrous fraud were at level with religious faithful, people that were too stupid to realize how surreal were the promises of riches, people who chose to have faith in a lie instead of admitting the con.
This book is a lesson in greed, the most ruthless politics, the ability to make one's fortune starting literally with nothing else but one's silver tongue
