Tom Burgis

Financial Times

Investigations correspondent and former Africa correspondent for the Financial Times; author of the The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers and the Theft of Africa's Wealth

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Elections are set for this weekend in Nigeria, one of the African countries experiencing astonishing economic growth.

Why the "Africa Rising" Narrative Is Misleading

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