Anansi's gold : the man who looted the west, outfoxed Washington, and swindled the world
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

When Ghana won its independence from Britain in 1957, it instantly became a target for home-grown opportunists and rapacious Western interests. A CIA-funded military falsely accused Kwame Nkrumah of hiding the country's gold overseas. Into this big lie stepped a con man to rival the trickster god Anansi. John Ackah Blay-Miezah declared himself custodian of an alleged Nkrumah trust fund worth billions. 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. Yepoka Yeebo chases Blay-Miezah's ever-wilder trail and discovers, at long last, what really happened to Ghana's missing wealth.