Anansi’s Gold Audiobook Libro.fm

Bloomsbury presents Anansis Gold by Yepoka Yeebo read by Jude Owusu

Winner of the Jhalak Prize amp Plutarch Award A New York Times New Yorker Washington Post Newsweek TIME Book of the Year 2023
Fabulously entertaining Daily Telegraph Perfect for fans of Frank Abignale Jrs Catch Me If You Can Publishers Weekly
The astounding neverbeforetold story of how an ingenious Ghanaian con artist ran one of the 20th centurys 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 hadnt already stripped The military ousted the new nations first president Kwame Nkrumah then falsely accused him of stealing the countrys gold and hiding it overseas

Into this story stepped one of historys most charismatic scammers John Ackah BlayMiezah a con man to rival the trickster god Anansi Born into poverty BlayMiezah 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 with a small investment Over the 1970s and 80s 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 TempleBlack and had Nixons former attorneygeneral at his beck and call Many tried to stop him but BlayMiezah continued to live in luxury protected by exSAS soldiers while he deceived lawyers businessmen and investigators around the globe

In Anansis Gold Yepoka Yeebo chases the everwilder trail of BlayMiezah and unfolds a riveting account of Cold War entanglements and African dreams revealing the untold story of the grifter who beat the West at its own thieving game