Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World - Yepoka Yeebo
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“A fascinating story brilliantly told.”― The Boston Globe * “A non-fiction masterpiece.” ― Philadelphia Inquirer
The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of the 20th century’s longest-running and most spectacular frauds.
When Ghana won its independence from Britain in 1957, it instantly became a target for home-grown opportunists and rapacious Western interests determined to snatch any assets that colonialism hadn’t already stripped. A CIA-funded military junta ousted the new nation’s inspiring president, Kwame Nkrumah, then falsely accused him of hiding the country’s gold overseas.
Into this big lie stepped one of history’s most charismatic scammers, a con man to rival the trickster god Anansi. Born into poverty in Ghana and trained in the United States, John Ackah Blay-Miezah declared himself custodian of an alleged Nkrumah trust fund worth billions. You, too, could claim a piece–if only you would “invest” in Blay-Miezah’s fictitious efforts to release the equally fictitious fund. Over the 1970s and ‘80s, he and his accomplices―including Ghanaian state officials and Nixon’s former attorney general–scammed hundreds of millions of dollars out of thousands of believers. Blay-Miezah lived in luxury, deceiving Philadelphia lawyers, London financiers, and Seoul businessmen alike, all while eluding his FBI pursuers. American prosecutors called his scam “one of the most fascinating–and lucrative–in modern history.”
In Anansi’s Gold , Yepoka Yeebo chases Blay-Miezah’s ever-wilder trail and discovers, at long last, what really happened to Ghana’s missing wealth. She unfolds a riveting account of Cold War entanglements, international finance, and postcolonial betrayal, revealing how what we call “history” writes itself into being, one lie at a time.
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This post has 4 comments
August 30th, 2023
Thanks!
August 31st, 2023
“When Ghana won its independence from Britain in 1957, it instantly became a target for home-grown opportunists and rapacious Western interests determined to snatch any assets that colonialism hadn’t already stripped.”
LOL!! This is the story of “western civilization”!
It’s very rare that you see a black man celebrated for committing a crime, as white men quite often make heroes out of these kinds of criminals, as well as mass murderers, who white men absolutely adore and will write books and make movies about for DECADES (Hitler, Bundy, Manson, Dahmer, Unabomber, etc).
But we all know how angry the white man gets when he’s outsmarted by a brown or black person, so this is gonna be a fun listen!
November 14th, 2023
A cracking yarn of a little-known scam-within-a-scam which played on the CIA and MI6 overthrow of the legitimate government of Ghana, Britain’s first African colony to gain independence. There’s an excellent background interview with the author, Yepoka Yeebo, on the Australian Radio National podcast “Late Night Live”, with Philip Adams. Thoroughly recommended for anyone with an interest in western participation in African high crimes and misdemeanours.
January 13th, 2024
Thank you! :)
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