Dictatorland av Paul Kenyon

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A <i>Financial Times</i> Book of the Year<b>''Jaw-dropping'' <i>Daily Express</i></b><b>''Grimly fascinating'' <i>Financial Times</i></b><b>''Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched'' <i>Irish Times</i></b>The dictator who grew so rich on his country''s cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces. In Equatorial Guinea, the paranoid despot who thought Hitler was the saviour of Africa and waged a relentless campaign of terror against his own people. The Libyan army officer who authored a new work of political philosophy, <i>The Green Book</i>, and lived in a tent with a harem of female soldiers, running his country like a mafia family business.And behind these almost incredible stories of fantastic violence and excess lie the dark secrets of Western greed and complicity, the insatiable tast