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The emphasis in the looting machine is on those countries burgis knows well angola nigeria congo with less intensive reporting from several other nations tom burgis has worked for the financial times in africa since 2006 covering business politics corruption and conflict. The looting machine is made up of the enablers investors the government the exploited people and the consumers this field of practice is so extensive that its difficult to comprehend for instance burgis mentions how funding by both the world bank and the imf have exploited africas natural resources however the world bank does not . An extremely engaging and disturbing work of investigative journalism the looting machine tells the tale of the systematic theft of africas natural wealth in the post colonial world burgis is incredibly well researched and thorough in his investigation of the looting machines which make some of the wealthiest nations in the world the poorest. The looting machine is an often painfully eye opening account of the systematic tearing apart of some of africas most naturally resource rice countries it offers an in depth but gripping expose of the corrupt kleptocratic regimes in power and the insidious impact of china as well as pretty important assertions about the complicity of . The looting machinewarlords tycoons smugglers and the systematic theft of africas wealth2015 by the british author and journalist tom burgis highlights a number of shady deals made over the past two decades between multinational corporations and african political leaders