num_pages: 296
description: Selected as one of the six best nonfiction books of 1990 by the editors f the New York Times Book Review , this is a compelling and entertaining account of the author's two-and-a-half year adventure in Equatorial Guinea, and his efforts to get this small bankrupt African nation on the path of structural development.
language: English
title: Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa
titlecomplete: Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa
genres: Equatorial Guinea, History, Travel, Memoir, Economics, Politics, Africa, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 367
publisher: Basic Books