Blood Diamonds by Greg Campbell

June 3, 2011 by Christina

Nonfiction — print. Westview Press, 2002. 252 pgs. Library copy. Subtitled “Tracing the Deadly Path of the World’s Most Precious Stones”, Campbell’s book explains how the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These “blood diamonds” are smuggled out of Sierra Leone, exported out of Liberia or Guinea, and sold to legitimate diamond merchants in London, Antwerp, and New York, often with the complicity of the international diamond industry. Eventually, these […]

Categories: 2011 Reads, Africa, Nonfiction • Tags: Greg Campbell