Posts Tagged ‘nigeria’
Outing corruption in Kenya, and African authors you want to meet
Last year, I wrote about a new book on a Kenyan whistleblower, written by a British journalist. A reader pointed me to Kenyan writer Billy Kahora, who’d also just published a book, locally, about a Kenyan whistleblower — in fact, the man who, as Kahora tells it, exposed Kenya’s biggest-ever corruption scandal. It’s also one [...]
So many invitations to make millions, so little time
I don’t know what website I recently put my email address into, but now I’m getting an email a day from Festac Town. Of course, email phishing scams know no national boundaries, but Eamon Kircher-Allen looked at the most famous of them a few days ago: the great Nigerian oil email scams. The Nigerian government [...]
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