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The African Infrastructure Scam

How Western finance uses the promise of critical infrastructure to loot Africa.

Electrical power lines at the natural gas–powered Azura-Edo Independent Power Plant in Benin City, Nigeria, June 2018. Nigeria has the capacity to produce upward of 12,000 megawatts of electricity each day but often dispatches only 4,000 (Getty Images).

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This post was originally published on Jacobin.