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The early pages of The Shadow of the Sun, a compendium of further adventures in Africa, find Ryszard Kapuściński in Dar es Salaam in 1962, where he hears that Uganda is about to gain independence. He and a friend, Leo, promptly set off for Kampala via the Serengeti, with its teeming wildlife. "It's all improbable, incredible.
Jacob Young, William Abrams, and Nancy Clem ran what author Wendy Gamber argues, in her book The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age, was the first-ever Ponzi scheme. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Munich, Germany, Adele Spitzeder founded the Spitzedersche Privatbank in 1869, promising an interest rate of 10 percent per month.
The book profiles 28 Africans who have HIV/AIDS, who have worked in healthcare or advocacy, or have otherwise been affected by the pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, noting that 70% of global HIV cases are in sub-Saharan Africa. [5] The book opens with background material about the work of Nolen, an explanation of HIV/AIDS in lay terms, and notes ...
John Ackah Blay-Miezah (born John Kolorah Blay, 1941–1992) was a Ghanaian con artist.He was a pioneer of advance-fee fraud.He claimed to be worth $47 billion. From the 1960s to 1980s, he is said to have swindled over $200m from victims in North America, Europe, and Asia.
The Fraud by Zadie Smith has garnered accolades. It was selected as a New York Times book of the year 2023, [9] a New Yorker magazine 2023 book of the year [10] and a Washington Post hardcover bestseller in December 2023. [11]
Indeed, a real or perceived financial need is a fraud risk factor for employee theft, as outlined in my book Essentials of Corporate Fraud. Many factors can make an employee more or less likely to ...
The book was published in 1817 and was originally titled Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce by the "Late Master and Supercargo" James Riley, modernly republished as Sufferings in Africa, and comes down to us today as a startling gap of the usual master-slave narrative.
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.