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BENIN - THE WAREHOUSE STATE

By Rachida Agossou · 4 parts · 12 h 34 min · English

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Benin is a sliver of West African coast that lives by warehousing goods bound for Nigeria, and its fortunes grew in the gap between two countries' prices: frozen poultry, used cars, bottled petrol. This book follows the money from a savings scheme that took the deposits of over 100,000 people to a year of piracy off Cotonou, a tax office whose safe was found four billion francs short, cocaine in containers of food and sugar, and six bags of cash that put the president's oldest friend in prison for twenty years. It asks who polices a trading state when a trader becomes the state. Covers ICC Services and its promoters, Patrice Talon's cotton and port businesses, Sébastien Ajavon, Komi Koutché, Olivier Boko and Oswald Homeky, and the CRIET special court.

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  1. Part 01

    2:51:14

  2. Part 02

    3:11:45

  3. Part 03

    3:07:39

  4. Part 04

    3:23:14

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