The wild dogs cry out in the night

I just finished reading The Looting Machine by Tom Burgis. This book is the written equivalent of the blues bar that Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) visits in The Naked Gun 2 ½. There were pictures of the Hindenburg disaster, the sinking of the Titanic, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and failed US presidential candidate Michael Dukakis hanging on the walls. In other words, quite depressing. Despite having highly productive oil, mining, and diamond industries, African countries such as Nigeria, Niger, Congo, and Angola are mired in poverty. Corrupt local and  international government officials, corporations, and financial services firms collude to loot the wealth generated from these industries, while ordinary people subsist. It seems that there is neither the will nor the prospect of these problems being solved, and Burgis doesn’t offer any solutions either.