Anansi's Gold

Name: Anansi's Gold
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing (AUS)
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The man who swindled the world. WINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024.

By: Yepoka Yeebo

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Paperback | 3 December 2024

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Winner of the Jhalak Prize & Plutarch Award | A New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, Newsweek, TIME Book of the Year 2023
âFabulously entertainingâ Daily Telegraph | âPerfect for fans of Frank Abignale Jr.âs Catch Me If You Canâ Publishers Weekly
The astounding, never-before-told story of how an ingenious Ghanaian con artist ran one of the 20th centuryâs longest and most audacious frauds.

When Ghana declared independence from Britain in 1957, it immediately became a target for opportunists determined to lay hold of whatever assets colonialism hadnât already stripped. The military ousted the new nationâs first president, Kwame Nkrumah, then falsely accused him of stealing the countryâs gold and hiding it overseas.

Into this story stepped one of historyâs most charismatic scammers, John Ackah Blay-Miezah â" a con man to rival the trickster god Anansi. Born into poverty, Blay-Miezah declared himself the custodian of an alleged Nkrumah trust fund worth billions. You, too, could claim a piece, if only you would help him rescue it â" with a small investment. Over the 1970s and â80s, he grew his scam to epic proportions, amassing hundreds of millions of pounds from thousands of marks all over the world. He baffled Henry Kissinger, scandalised Shirley Temple-Black, and had Nixonâs former attorney-general at his beck and call. Many tried to stop him, but Blay-Miezah continued to live in luxury, protected by ex-SAS soldiers while he deceived lawyers, businessmen and investigators around the globe.

In Anansiâs Gold, Yepoka Yeebo chases the ever-wilder trail of Blay-Miezah â" and unfolds a riveting account of Cold War entanglements and African dreams â" revealing the untold story of the grifter who beat the West at its own thieving game.

Nominated for a 2024 Legacy Award from the Hurston/Wright Foundation

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