DICTATORLAND, the men who stole Africa

453pp., b/w & colour illus., maps, paperback, London, 2018

Paul Kenyon on post-independence Congo, Zimbabwe, Libya, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire and Eritrea.

"This is the heartbreaking account of how a handful of men were handed a continent of rich lands and poor people. Paul Kenyon is a brilliant writer and reporter who's been there and tells a story of unparalleled greed and western complicity in vivid detail. It's Africa's ruin, but our story too." Michael Buerk, author of "The Road Taken"

Paul Kenyon is a BBC correspondent and BAFTA award-winning journalist.