{"product_id":"black-gold-black-scorpion-expat-life-in-nigeria-paperback","title":"Black Gold - Black Scorpion: (expat life in nigeria) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorge S. Boughton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eBIAFRAN WAR \u003c\/strong\u003e(1967-1970) remembered over half a century later\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTERN Magazine \u003c\/strong\u003e- The Black Scorpion: \"we will aim at everything - even if it is not moving\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTV Presenter Juliette Foster\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cem\u003e\"an intense, emotional memoir. \u003c\/em\u003eBlack Gold Black Scorpion couldn't be timelier. George S Boughton was an oil engineer in Nigeria during the Biafran war and what emerges from this memoir is a withering indictment of governing elites and the destructive consequences of their out-of-control behaviour. Around a million people starved to death or were killed in the fighting; yet the news vacuum meant that Boughton and other expat workers were often in the dark about the true extent of what was going on. Black Gold Black Scorpion is a fascinating, first-hand account of how a nation at war with itself became a magnet for cold war politics as it sank into moral darkness\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecounted are the lives of a young oil engineer, his wife and new-born child, during the Biafran War, when they inadvertently lived through one of the worst episodes of African history. Working in an industry that has gone on to pollute massively with oil, theirs is a different story of Africa, oil and aid. The author describes the political elites and those, like Ojukwu and Adekunle, who fought them - having himself been captured and detained, one to one, by the mythically ruthless Black Scorpion; this, the strangest of events, enabling him to observe at close range the disintegration of a powerful personality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore especially, the author's and his family's interaction with the people of the area, the people of Igboland, serves to underline how most of Africa continues to be let down by the pillars of the modern world - political elites, capitalists, the media and warring world powers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e---------------\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexpat life in nigeria; biafran war; nigerian war; nigerian conflict; war story; war evacuation; oil conflict\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 146\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 31, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53849106415923,"sku":"9780993275609","price":19.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/BEET_jNm2c9780993275609.webp?v=1786568035","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/black-gold-black-scorpion-expat-life-in-nigeria-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}