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aNANSI’S GOLD: THE MAN WHO SWINDLED THE WORLD (2023)
Winner of the Plutarch Award.
A book of the year at the New York Times, New Yorker, and Washington Post.
This is the bizarre story of John Ackah Blay-Miezah who was born into poverty in Ghana in 1941. He became in the 1970s and 1980s one of the greatest swindlers of all time. He claimed, via emails sent worldwide, to be the custodian of a multi-billion dollar trust fund set up by the deposed Presdident of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah. He persuaded his fraud victims to send him money as a way of receiving large sums from the trust fund. But of course no money was forthcoming, and he amassed hundreds of millions. He lived in luxury, protected by ex-SAS bodyguards, while deceiving investigators from around the world.
abouT THE AUTHOR
Yepoka Yeebo is an investigative journalist who divides her time between Accra in Ghana, London and New York. She graduated from Queen Mary, University of London and the School of Journalism at Columbia University, New York.
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