Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa

Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa

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…

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