Anansi&Apos S Gold: The Man Who Swindled World Winner Of Jhalak Prize 2024 Yepoka Yeebo Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Biographies

Winner Of The Jhalak Prize Plutarch Award A New York Times Yorker Washington Post Newsweek Time Book Year 2023‘Fabulously Entertaining’ Daily Telegraph ‘Perfect For Fans Frank Abignale Jr ’S Catch Me If You Can’ Publishers Weeklythe Astounding Never-Before-Told Story How An Ingenious Ghanaian Con Artist Ran One 20Th Century’s Longest And Most Audacious Frauds When Ghana Declared Independence From Britain In 1957 It Immediately Became Target Opportunists Determined To Lay Hold Whatever Assets Colonialism Hadn’t Already Stripped Military Ousted Nation’s First President Kwame Nkrumah Then Falsely Accused Him Stealing Country’s Gold Hiding Overseas Into This Stepped History’s Charismatic Scammers John Ackah Blay-Miezah – Man Rival Trickster God Anansi Born Poverty Himself Custodian Alleged Trust Fund Worth Billions Too Could Claim Piece Only Would Help Rescue With Small Investment Over 1970S ’80S He Grew His Scam Epic Proportions Amassing Hundreds Millions Pounds Thousands Marks All World Baffled Henry Kissinger Scandalised Shirley Temple-Black Had Nixon’s Former Attorney-General At Beck Call Many Tried Stop But Continued Live Luxury Protected By Ex-Sas Soldiers While Deceived Lawyers Businessmen Investigators Around Globe Anansi’s Yepoka Yeebo Chases Ever-Wilder Trail Unfolds Riveting Account Cold War Entanglements African Dreams Revealing Untold Grifter Who Beat West Its Own Thieving Game Nominated 2024 Legacy Hurston Wright Foundation Σελίδες: 400 Έτος Έκδοσης: 1203 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm